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Add a drop of lavender essential oil, and make a detoxifying poultice or mask.
Michael insisted on taking care of that himself, bandaging a poultice of herbs over the injury every morning.
He beckoned, then pointed at the poultice, and was relieved when the fledgling crawled over with no sign of either suspicion or fear.
A poultice of unknown contents was applied to the area, with subsequent development of the mass.
Over the next two hours she concocted potions to relieve the pain, creams to help the healing, and a poultice to reduce the swelling.
The roasted fruit is emollient and used as a poultice in the treatment of gumboils, dental abscesses etc.
His remedy for gout was a poultice of green laurel and honey mixed with the lard of a male pig.
They can also be made into an anti-inflammatory poultice and topically applied for boils and carbuncles.
These act as a giant poultice, drawing toxins out from the skin, compressing and compacting the soft tissue.
The poultice was thickening, but still too watery to be applied under a compress.
Japanese macrobiotics uses a grated poultice of the taro potato which grows in tropical, hot countries.
In the old days a method of easing the sting of sunburn was to make a potato poultice which would give rapid relief.
In the middle ages, pastel leaves were applied in poultice for their cicatrising virtues.
Fenugreek seeds boiled in water, coarsely pounded, can be applied on a boil as a poultice.
It is applied as a poultice to relieve inflammation Leaf infusions are used as a sedative in colic and neuralgia, and as an antispasmodic.
After the delivery, we apply a poultice made of fir resin to heal the inside of the mother's belly.
Once he had drained her breast, and without stitching it up, he applied a poultice of fir gum and protected it with the skin of a hare.
This use includes using the bark as a poultice, for colds, for flu, and stomach aches.
Apply a paste of ground seasame seeds with water as poultice for inflammation of the skin due to allergies, skin rashes, and acne scar.
Mash it, wrap it in a damp cloth and while it is still very warm, but not enough to cause burns, use it as a poultice.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is used in the form of poultice for locked-jaw, and as a relaxant in rigidity of the muscular structure.
He was mate of a ship and smart as a red pepper poultice on a skinned heel.
Apply first a cold poultice, and then form the eschar, which may be freely exposed to the air.
If the cracks are deep, with an ichorous discharge and considerable lameness, it will be necessary to poultice the heel.
E may be 'appy with an 'Arp in 'eaven, or 'e may be a-groanin' in an 'ospital with a poultice where 'is face ought to be.
A poultice of tobacco leaves is a favorite remedy, and may be used to soothe the sore after cauterization.
Hops may be used topically as a fomentation or a poultice, as a resolvent or discutient in painful swellings and tumours.
He applied a poultice of sea bread, in order to reduce the inflammation, which he supposed it would shortly do.
The same effect may be produced by poultice mixed with levisticum or leaves of parsley.
In America the leaves are used as a poultice in otitis, their action being rubefacient.
He called her 'Miss,' too, an' I judged that 'Miss' was one o' them poultice words to her.
I now introduced the lunar caustic very freely into these openings, and reapplied a cold poultice and lotion.
Nor is success a poultice to lay on the wounds of those who have never ventured.
This explains our hot poultice and fomentation as used with cold cloths.
It's like the poultice Aunt Cindy made for Walkah's toothache.
In the common paronychia a poultice is generally sufficient.
She chewed some of the poultice and swallowed it before Husky's eyes.
I put him ter bed and made the poultice, then I put it ter his side.
And yet not one mother or nurse in ten knows how to make a poultice.
He added, on his own initiative, a thing that looked like a poultice.
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