(n.) The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
(n.) An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cissus quadrangularis was mutagenic, while 'decoctions' of cumin seeds, aniseeds and ginger were not.
(2) The dissolution ratio of selenium in decoctions of each single crude drug is about 30-40%.
(3) The factors which influence decoction-making conditions are in the order of: volume greater than time greater than method.
(4) The depressed ERGs in the Yandi Decoction III treated group showed remarkable recovery during 6 weeks after starting treatment, comparing with that in the control group and the urokinase treated group (P less than 0.05).
(5) In this research, 74 patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) were grouped in matched-pair, one group took orally Inositol and Mai Tong as the control group, the other group took orally Yi Xin Decoction as the tested group.
(6) A simple method using ion-pair high-performance liquid chromatography was established for the rapid and precise determination of synephrine in oriental pharmaceutical decoctions containing Aurantii Nobilis Pericarpium.
(7) In order to further investigate the curative effect of Yi Xin Decoction and elucidate its mechanism, the authors have also investigated Yi Xin Decoction on the experimental mice with hyperlipemia.
(8) The results show that the dosage of gypsum should be 10-20 grams, preferably ground to at least 60 mesh powder, the fine powder over 60 mesh is not to be pre-decocted, but the coarse powder of 40 mesh needs pre-decocting.
(9) The root and stem decoctions of Sinomenium acutum Rehd.
(10) Herbal prostatitis decoction is a great effective prescription to treat chronic prostatitis in promoting the blood circulation and relieving the stasis.
(11) The content of calcium ion Ca2+ in gypsum decoction has been determined with coordination titration.
(12) This paper reported the results of clinical observation on a treatment with Semen Persical decoction for purgation with addition (SPDPA) in type II diabetes mellitus.
(13) Experiments with these decoctions were carried out to observe the action on isolated hearts of toads and the ECG and acute toxicity on mice.
(14) It is concluded that peroral administration of freshly prepared decocts of Zoapatle in early pregnancy exerts a distinct uterotonic effect and induces cervical dilatation and uterine bleeding.
(15) In this paper the contents and solubilities of copper, zinc, iron, calcium and magnesium in Siwu decoction and Liuwei Dihuang Decoction were studied.
(16) In Amazonian Peru and Ecuador leaf decoctions of the rainforest holly Ilex guayusa with high caffeine concentrations are used as a morning stimulant.
(17) Comparable action was obtained by Qingying Decoction prepared with water buffalo horn.
(18) Four prisoners drank a decoction of yew (Taxus baccata) needles containing the toxic alkaloid taxine++ B.
(19) The increased deposition of stone-forming constituents in the kidneys of calculogenic rats was lowered with decoction administration.
(20) The herbal decoction is to be taken 3 times daily before meals.
Essence
Definition:
(n.) The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.
(n.) The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.
(n.) Constituent substance.
(n.) A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.
(n.) The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like.
(n.) Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.
(v. t.) To perfume; to scent.
Example Sentences:
(1) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(2) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
(3) In essence these functions describe a major aspect of the quality of life for surviving patients and may be useful when viewed in conjunction with the survival curves themselves.
(4) "Sunday's vote is an election in legal and constitutional terms but not in essence.
(5) But where it is not a free and fair election then we must fight for free and fair elections because that is the essence of our citizenship.” In Kampala, the spokesman for the FDC said the delays were a “deliberate attempt to frustrate” voters in urban areas, especially Kampala and the neighbouring district of Wakiso.
(6) 2) The causes of sharp differences in both, the resolving power and mechanisms of recognition of antigenic determinant by antibodies and B cell receptors, on the one hand, and of macromolecular antigens as such by antigen-recognizing receptors of T cells, on the other 3) The essence of the mechanisms by means of which the T cell receptors recognize and distinguish the macro-molecular antigens as such.
(7) Iatrogenesis, earlier considered to be an unfavorable effect of the word on the patient has acquired a new essence.
(8) "In essence it does not matter where a global company's headquarters are," he wrote.
(9) Although geropsychiatric nursing or mental health nursing with the elderly (MHNE) can be conceived of as a new subspecialty in psychiatric mental health nursing, in essence it is as old as nursing itself, for caring for people of all ages has always been within the purview of nursing.
(10) This is a review of papers on ocular manifestations of systemic diseases published, in essence, during the period from October 1, 1974 to September 30, 1975, with emphasis on papers that may contain knowledge of interest to optometrists.
(11) The essence of this hypothesis is that a competition for the available plasticity exists between the compensatory responses to ageing-induced degeneration and the processes necessary for memory trace formation.
(12) This algorithm consists of a versatile variation scheme and an innovative decision rule, the essence of which lies in a radical revision of the conventional philosophy of optimization: A number of configurations of variables with better values, instead of only a single best configuration, are selected as starting points for the next iteration.
(13) We believe positive symptoms have always been the essence of psychiatric disorder and should remain so.
(14) Speaking in the European parliament last week, Muscat warned that “unless the essence of the Turkey deal is replicated in the central Mediterranean, Europe will face a major migration crisis”.
(15) In essence, criminalisation leads to stigma, and stigma leads to harassment."
(16) In essence, the court agreed to hear oral arguments on the merits of the executive order.
(17) In essence, it was discovered that gastric ulcer patients exhibit a higher mesor and amplitude for both gastrin and pepsinogen, whereas duodenal ulcer patients and those with erosive gastroduodenopathy show only a significant increase in the pepsinogen mesor.
(18) European phenomenological psychiatry in the field of schizophrenia is introduced and its attempts to reveal the essence of autism are presented.
(19) This is the essence of the problem, and sadly, Festinger's words ring true today: the conviction of humans is all too often impervious to the very evidence in front of them.
(20) In essence, it is: “This recovery is not working for you, the everyday working people.