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- noun Plural form of
demulcent .
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Herbs that are cooling have bitter, sour, or salty flavors and include alteratives blood purifiers, purgatives, and demulcents which are moistening and lubricating.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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_demulcents_ as oils, milk, starch; stimulants to overcome collapse; saline infusions in shock, etc.
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a moderate number of narcotics and sedatives, and an abundant supply of tonics, astringents, aromatics and demulcents, while the list of anodynes, emetics and cathartics remains in a comparative degree incomplete --
The Long Roll Mary Johnston 1903
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