Water in which dried plant parts, other than tea leaves, are boiled or steeped.
1You will continue your ptisan and we will answer for your majesty.
2Hippocrates himself was as particular about his barley-ptisan as any Florence Nightingale of our time could be.
3A large cup of ptisan was presented by the page, which the sick man swallowed with eager and trembling haste.
4Everything which gave relief to others, ptisans, baths, and bleeding, increased my tortures.
5"Hold your tongue!" said the king, between two swallows of his ptisan.