poultice

Converse of object

• apply: All the samples were treated at room temperature with a saturated solution of ammonium oxalate in a cellulose poultice applied over Japanese tissue.
• make: A poultice made from the boiled or roasted fruit will remove burn marks from the skin.
• use: Mike Sharp Mike, personally I would ensure any paint on the wood was removed using a poultice.
• try: For areas of extreme inflammation, try a witch hazel poultice or spray if touching cannot be tolerated.
• prepare: Japanese tissue was placed over the samples and the wallpaper paste poultice prepared to the consistency of a thick gel and applied.
• remove: Carefully remove the poultice with a plastic or wood spatula and rinse the area with water.

Adjective modifier

• hot: Calm your senses as your body is soothed by a hot herbal poultice of sweet basil and a warm oil massage.
• warm: The Black Death was treated by lancing the buboes and applying a warm poultice of butter, onion and garlic.
• fresh: To make a fresh plantain poultice: Pick a leaf, chew it well and put it on the boo-boo.
• herbal: Calm your senses as your body is soothed by a hot herbal poultice of sweet basil and a warm oil massage.
• soothing: Stuart ( 1979 ) also refers to its use as a soothing poultice.

Modifies a noun

• method: This 2-day meeting will give a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of stone cleaning by means of the latex poultice method.

Noun used with modifier

• healing: It was used by early South American Indians as a powerful healing poultice.
• mustard: Thence till three, we labored with mustard poultices, laudanum, soda and ginger - Heavens!
• linseed: My mother was nearly all night poulticing my father with these flaming linseed poultices.

Preposition: of

• leave: The crushed seeds rubbed on the forehead cure headache and neuralgia; a poultice of the fruit and/or leaves is similarly used.

Preposition: for

• bruise: Catnip can be used in a similar way to Comfrey - as an ointment, compress or poultice for bruises and minor wounds.
• wound: The Kwakiutl chewed the leaves and used them as a poultice for wounds and sores.
• ulcer: Stuart ( 1979 ) refers to the external use of marshmallow as a poultice for leg ulcers.
• swelling: It has long been used by the North American Indians as poultices for painful swellings and tumors.