A puffball fungus, esp. one dried and pressed for use as a styptic. Also in extended use (derogatory): †a despised person (obsolete).

Originally: the bracket fungus Fomitopsis officinalis, which grows mainly on larch; a preparation of this, formerly used medicinally chiefly as a…

As a mass noun: the dried powdery spores of a puffball used as a styptic. Obsolete. rare.

The fresh or dried leaves of the matico, used esp. as a styptic.

The dried rhizome and roots of the herb golden seal or yellow root (Hydrastis canadensis), or an extract or tincture of them, formerly used…

German tinder, prepared from species of fungus Polyporus and Boletus, that grow on trees, employed as a match and a styptic.

With defining words, applied to various plants whose leaves, flowers, etc. are used in the same way as tea, either for beverages, or medicinally…