Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
IONTOPHORESIS
iontophoresis, ionic medication, iontotherapy, electromotive drug administration, EMDA
(noun) therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
iontophoresis (usually uncountable, plural iontophoreses)
(medicine) A treatment in which electrodes are put in contact with tissue and a voltage is applied in order to introduce an ionized medication
Source: Wiktionary
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