The chocoholics among us won't be surprised to learn that people were sipping decoctions of cacao a millennium earlier than archaeologists had previously thought. |
You may simmer tougher herbal roots and barks to make them into decoctions, another form of water extract. |
Some said they take tonics because their classmates do and others said their parents buy the decoctions for them. |
One of the above mordants is followed by a bath made by mixing equal parts of the decoctions of logwood, fustic, and Brazil-wood. |
The same dose of herbs can be similarly cooked to make two or three further decoctions. |
Vegetable infusions and decoctions may be cleared by defecation followed by filtration. |