Tobacco, Decoction

Peru. Decoction of the leaf with ayahuasca beverage (Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis) is taken orally for hallucinating effect during shamanic training. A diet of cooked plantain and smoked fish follows each use . Hot water extract of the dried flower and leaf is used externally for snake and spider bites . The Witotos and Boras used the fresh leaves as poultice over boils and infected wounds. The Tikuna men mix the crushed leaves with oil from palms as a hair dressing to prevent baldness. The Jivaros use the tobacco juice for indisposition, cold, chills, and snake bites and to treat pulmonary ailments ... 

Usage Generally a thickened or solid extract (block liquorice), obtained by decoction with water, is employed for producing sweets and for flavouring smoked goods and tobacco products. 

Tobacco" was applied to patients as compresses, infusions, decoctions, or as rectal enemas or via exposure to tobacco smoke. There is little evidence to support the efficacy of these treatments, and indeed many patients died, so that tobacco was gradually removed from the pharmacopoeias. 

Allison s Tobacco Ointment for Gathered Breasts. Tobacco leaves (fresh and sliced), 10 ounces dilnto acetic acid, 4 pints basilicon ointment No. 4964), 13 ounces. Boil tho tobacco m the acid, strain and evaporate the decoction over a warm baUi to 4 fluid ounces add this to tbo basilicon ointment, heated, and stir the wh[Pg.311]

Kxtridge s Salve. Hake a decoction in rain water of 14 pounds each bittersweet root and sweet elder root 4 pound each hop vines, hop leaves, and garden plantain tops, with 4 pound of the root of the last named plant, and 4 ounce plug tobacco. Strain, and press through a thick cloth, and evaporate to 4 pint. Then mix with 1 pound sweet butter and 1 ounce each resin and Dees -wax. Heat gently until the water has all evaporated. This is a good curative salve for sores on the human body as well as on animals. 

HasMsh. The Arabian word H. (originally weed, grass) is used for the narcotic drug originating from the resin of flower buds of a west Asian hemp variety (Cannabis saliva var. indica). It is usually smoked on its own or mixed with tobacco or opium, it is less frequently taken orally or drunk in the form of a decoction or tea. The consumption of H. has a long tradition in Middle Eastern and Asian societies and is nowadays abused worldwide. The official international name is cannabis. Because of its psychoactive component A - tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) cannabis is misused as a... 

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