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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Decoction \De*coc"tion\, noun [F. d['e]coction, L. decoctio.]
1. The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom. --Bacon.
2. An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
If the plant be boiled in water, the strained liquor is called the decoction of the plant. --Arbuthnot.
In pharmacy decoction is opposed to infusion, where there is merely steeping. --Latham.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
decoction
noun: (pharmacology) the extraction by boiling of water-soluble drug substances
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "decoction": boil, boiling, brew, chemical solution, coction, combination, composition, concentrate, concentration, concoction, confection, decoctum, distillate, distillation, ebullience, ebulliency, ebulliometer, ebullition, elixir, essence, expression, extract, extraction, imbuement, impregnation, infiltration, infusion, instillation, instillment, interpenetration, leach, leachate, lixivium, marination, mixture, penetration, permeation, pervasion, pressing, purification, quintessence, refinement, rendering, rendition, saturation, seething, simmer, simmering, soaking, solution, spirit, squeezing, steeping, stewing, suffusion
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