How To Use Poultice In A Sentence
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The roasted fruit is emollient and used as a poultice in the treatment of gumboils, dental abscesses etc.
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Massage oils, poultices, steam inhalations, sitz, hand, body and foot baths, gargles and room sprays are the most common methods of administration.
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In Java, poultices of the herb are applied to old sores, scurvy, and other skin conditions.
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Forget time, he was told, tear up calendars, chuck away clocks, lie doggo and heal yourself with a long-term poultice of peace and quiet.
THE OPEN DOOR
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It is antiseptic, that is, it prevents and removes putrifaction; for this purpose, it should be taken in a decoction internally and applied externally in poultice.
The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptom
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Gilbert's medical treatment of vesical calculus consists generally in the administration of diuretics and lithontriptics and the local application of poultices, plasters and inunctions of various kinds.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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Turmeric can also be applied topically in poultices to relieve pain and inflammation.
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My hand traveled down my side and discovered the padding that had been secured to the wound; a rank stench told me that they had used a poultice to keep the infectious humors at bay.
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The mite, Mr. Snow informed her, was called a chigger—he advised her to apply mud poultices to her itching legs, a remedy Tasmin adopted with some reluctance, since it rather cut against her vanity.
The Berrybender Narratives
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The hot poultices placed upon my feet and ankles threw me into a profuse perspiration, and my very active association of mad ideas convinced me that I was being "sweated" -- another police term which I had often seen in the newspapers.
A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography
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We'll have to poultice the beast's right front fetlock, but he'll be fine.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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Ruby poulticed it, and though it took the better part of a year, it healed so neatly you would think that was the way the ends of people's fingers were meant to look.
Cold Mountain
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Grated pokeroot was used by Native Americans as a poultice to treat inflammations and rashes of the breast.
Find Me A Cure
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They can also be made into an anti-inflammatory poultice and topically applied for boils and carbuncles.
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If the knee be bruised as well as cut, a poultice should be applied, and changed two or three times a day; but on no account use gunpowder, which is a favourite remedy for broken knees with ignorant people, as it only irritates the wound.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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She sat patiently while Mrs. Henderson removed the poultice, clucked over her knee, then bound it up in a fresh bandage.
A RAKE'S VOW
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Herbal medicine is used for circulatory diseases in two ways: internally, through teas, tinctures or capsules, and externally, through poultices, lotions and herbal liniments.
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She worked quickly, applying several salves, and then a poultice.
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While the external application of warm herbal poultices, plasters, or fomentations is commonly used as a counterirritant to relieve underlying pain and congestion, others having a cooler, anti-inflammatory action are used for the treatment of more inflamed injuries and inflammations, and to promote the healing of burns, tissue, and broken bones.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
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It is the black Mustard which yields by its seeds the condiment of our tables, and the pungent yellow flour which we employ for the familiar stimulating poultice, or sinapism.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Her mantle cavity's obviously infected, but those poultices you put on the wounds have probably kept her from dying.
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The healers have their bandages and their poultices, their medicine and their skill.
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Juice from the ripe fruit is used to make beer, unripe fruit is dried and made into animal feed, and the peels are used to make an antiseptic poultice for wounds.
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The unripe fruit and the bark are extremely astringent, being useful in decoction, or infusion, to check diarrhoea; and externally in poultices or lotions, to constringe such relaxed parts as the throat, and lower bowel.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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A poultice is a liquid cleaner or chemical mixed with a white absorbent material to form a paste about the consistency of peanut butter.
HOME COMFORTS
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A garland of betony worn at night was a specific against phantasma or delusions and a head poultice of crushed teasel a spiky plant with hooked spines would relieve the symptoms of the frenzy.20 Another popular belief was that a rosted Mous, eaten, doth heale Franticke persons.21
Bedlam
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So when the poultice-walloper shook his head over Oliver, and glanced towards me, lying there all blood-spattered and pathetic, I was ready with a feeble gesture to keep him at a distance - the last thing I wanted was the little bugger poking at me and exclaiming:
THE NUMBERS
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Over the next two hours she concocted potions to relieve the pain, creams to help the healing, and a poultice to reduce the swelling.
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These agents could be used in a pure form but are best utilized in concoctions, plasters, poultices, packs, washes or fumigants.
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Such practitioners, known as curanderos, use herb teas and poultices, traditional exercises, incantations, and magical touching to heal.
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Add a drop of lavender essential oil, and make a detoxifying poultice or mask.
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The poultice was thickening, but still too watery to be applied under a compress.
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Sunday was spent applying more unctions, lotions and poultices than any sane person should ever need.
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While the mullah glowered over the camp from the cave mouth or fulminated from the Quran or fought with other mullahs with words for weapons and abuse for argument, he bandaged and lanced and poulticed and physicked until his head swam with weariness.
In The Time Of Light
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Bandages and poultices covered the burn, and provided enough relief from the pain that she could function normally again.
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_Et quid Pandoniae_ -- thus, little book, I charge you to poultice your more-merited oblivion -- _quid Pandoniae restat nisi nomen Athenae?
Chivalry
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Eumolpus 'forehead, with spider's web soaked in oil; he then exchanged the poet's torn clothing for his own cloak; this done, he embraced the old gentleman, who was already somewhat mollified, and poulticed him with kisses.
Satyricon
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Michael insisted on taking care of that himself, bandaging a poultice of herbs over the injury every morning.
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She knows a lot about herbs and poultices and all that, mostly from her mother, who was a Druid.
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Home remedies consisting of poultices, eye irrigations, teas, etc., are liberally provided and described in detail.
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Doctors in those days prescribed mustard poultices or the like and Mother knew all about those.
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When applied externally, stevia poultices and extracts have a therapeutic effect on acne, seborrhoea, dermatitis and eczema.
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It is usually followed by herbal plasters and poultices called lepa to help draw toxins out of the pores of the skin.
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During the second five minutes this belief evaporates, but the poultice is buckled at the back and you cant get it off.
How the Poor Die
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Poultices made from the herb are applied to cleanse and heal chronic sores, which, as Gerard teaches, "they do scour and mundify.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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For more serious stains, you may need to use a poultice - an absorbent compound, such as powdered whiting mixed with hydrogen peroxide - which will pull the stain out.
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Centuries-old buildings support themselves on crutches of iron piping, their wounds and infirmities poulticed with stucco, slung with clothes-lines, patched up with rotting wood.
Excerpt: The Crimson Petal and The White by Michel Faber
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Old country doctors used a device called a poultice to draw out the infectious pus or poison to the surface in a crude but honest attempt to cure.
The "Anonymous" Super Patriots are crawling out of the mud!
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They rubbed his hump with camphorated grease, placed there for twenty minutes a mustard poultice, then covered it over with diachylum, and, in order to make sure of his coming back, gave him his breakfast.
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life
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In the old days a method of easing the sting of sunburn was to make a potato poultice which would give rapid relief.
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Massage oils, poultices, steam inhalations, sitz, hand, body and foot baths, gargles and room sprays are the most common methods of administration.
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He was old, and his breath laboured; there was a faint smell about him, of damp wool, of poultices, of cough linctus and piety.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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Forget time, he was told, tear up calendars, chuck away clocks, lie doggo and heal yourself with a long-term poultice of peace and quiet.
THE OPEN DOOR
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The blisters were drawn, clipped, poulticed; and not infrequently the odor arising from them could be recognized as soon as the door of the house was opened.
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You can also use fresh mustard leaves as a poultice.
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She applied ointment to his wounds, stuck on special poultices to reduce his bruising, and got him to drink potions made with a white powder called bai-yao to help cure his internal injuries.
WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA
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The best doctors in the kingdom treated it with all their skill; they bathed, and poulticed, and bandaged, but it was in vain.
The Orange Fairy Book
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Home remedies consisting of poultices, eye irrigations, teas, etc., are liberally provided and described in detail.
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_Et quid Pandoniae_ -- thus, little book, I charge you poultice your more-merited oblivion -- _quid Pandoniae restat nisi nomen Athenae_?
Chivalry
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Last year, over dinner, I mentioned that the stereotype of witches flying on broomsticks came about because they used to make a hallucinogenic poultice from deadly nightshade.
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Pick a few leaves from the common lawn weed plantain, wash them, mash them, and apply as a poultice to the affected skin.
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Esoula nil nobis, sed dat linaria _taurum_," implying that the herb was of old valued for its good effects when applied externally to piles as an ointment, a fomentation, or a poultice, each being made from the leaves and the flowers.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Adjuvant measures are hot baths, poultices, inunctions, fumigations and sternutatories, and the use of certain herbs.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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And even if the doctor lived next door and you could call her, she would only bleed you and put smelly poultices on your forehead to balance your humors.
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“My back itches, Spiller,” Galan said, and Spiller took off the bandage and poulticed the wound with foul-smelling liniment, and obligingly scratched up and down his spine.
Wildfire
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Traveller returned and efficiently applied a poultice to Nandron's leg.
ANTI-ICE
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In a blender, macerate with water, fresh or dried drawing herbs: comfrey root or leaf, marshmallow root, burdock root, and/or plantain leaf*; with fresh or dried antimicrobial herbs: echinacea root, or leaves and flowers, and a fresh clove of garlic; or add a few drops essential oil of thyme to the finished poultice.
Gentle Healing for Baby and Child
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Now, Cappin, what did you ever see in that blasted longshanks, Oakenberg, -- that called himself a doctor -- a fellow that sickened and killed more good fellows with his yarbs and poultices than he'll ever meet in heaven, -- what did you see in that skunk of a fellow to make you do for him what you did?
The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.
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Believing himself capable of curing his affliction with poultices and antiseptics, he had only delayed the inevitable visit to the doctor's office.
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Coats were dirty, with patches that looked suspiciously like mange; hocks were poulticed, and looked swollen; several of the wise old mares were ostentatiously practicing their limps, and there wasn't a hide of an attractive color among them.
Fiddler Fair
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In America the leaves are used as a poultice in otitis, their action being rubefacient.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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A poultice of unknown contents was applied to the area, with subsequent development of the mass.
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Japanese macrobiotics uses a grated poultice of the taro potato which grows in tropical, hot countries.
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Drinking wheatgrass juice regularly controls the growth of bacteria and when applied externally, on the affected area the poultice of wheatgrass works as an essential sterilizer.
Wheatgrass: The Wonderful Herb for Health
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Believing himself capable of curing his affliction with poultices and antiseptics, he had only delayed the inevitable visit to the doctor's office.
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Ant bites were soothed with a poultice of peperomia, and ulcers were relieved with the red resin of a plant from the lowlands known as sangre de drago, the blood of the dragon.
One River
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Mr Proudfoot will use poultices to remove encrusted dust and grime before treating the stone with chemical strengtheners to prevent cracking and erosion.
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She sat patiently while Mrs. Henderson removed the poultice, clucked over her knee, then bound it up in a fresh bandage.
A RAKE'S VOW
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These act as a giant poultice, drawing toxins out from the skin, compressing and compacting the soft tissue.
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The Delaware, Iroquois, Micmac, and Nootka Indians used bittersweet as a poultice to treat arthritis, skin ailments, digestive complaints, and tumors.
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I have heard the term poultice applied to the suet pudding more than once in casual conversations in the exercise ground.
Prisoner for Blasphemy
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The early American settlers applied it in like manner as a poultice to inflammatory conditions of the cow's udder, in the disease known as garget, a circumstance which has given to the plant one of its common names, garget plant.
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Such practitioners, known as curanderos, use herb teas and poultices, traditional exercises, incantations, and magical touching to heal.
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Traveller returned and efficiently applied a poultice to Nandron's leg.
ANTI-ICE
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Mmm, he may have heated some dampened rags by the stove and poulticed them on the clay to render it supple.
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‘As I was saying,’ Ziada continued, ‘I can't think of any other obscure purposes of wolfsbane, except for mouthwash and pimple-poultice.’
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Apply a poultice of abrasive powder and hot water.
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Franz-Josef glowered at the doctor and said it would be unwise to move me, surely, and the poultice-walloper agreed that it would be nothing short of bloody reckless.
Watershed
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His remedy for gout was a poultice of green laurel and honey mixed with the lard of a male pig.
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External herbal poultices, compresses, liniments, and salves are also used to enhance the other therapeutic methods.
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I took Dutch drops for it, and poulticed it by day, and I was bad for three weeks.
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Make poultice soaked with 20% peroxide (hair bleaching strength) and a few drops of ammonia.
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It's warm luster a poultice against a wall against insult. It a door on hunger.
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In the middle ages, pastel leaves were applied in poultice for their cicatrising virtues.
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The open sores had been festering unnoticed and to this, he applied some poultices.
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He beckoned, then pointed at the poultice, and was relieved when the fledgling crawled over with no sign of either suspicion or fear.
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Sunday was spent applying more unctions, lotions and poultices than any sane person should ever need.
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Poultices of wormwood boiled in grease, barm, or wine, may be applied with good success to white swellings.
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A poultice is a hot, moist mass of boiled potato, ground flaxseed, powdered fenugreek, or another substance designed to hold prolonged, moist warmth between two layers of linen or coarse cotton cloth.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
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While the mullah glowered over the camp from the cave mouth or fulminated from the Quran or fought with other mullahs with words for weapons and abuse for argument, he bandaged and lanced and poulticed and physicked until his head swam with weariness.
In The Time Of Light
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In the neglected and severer cases of bruise attended by much inflammation, it will be found best to treat the part for a day or two by a cold poultice to give time for the inflammation to subside; otherwise the caustic might induce vesication of the skin, as I have mentioned already, p. 5, and the eschar could not be adherent.
An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers
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Forget time, he was told, tear up calendars, chuck away clocks, lie doggo and heal yourself with a long-term poultice of peace and quiet.
THE OPEN DOOR
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When applied externally, stevia poultices and extracts have a therapeutic effect on acne, seborrhoea, dermatitis and eczema.