The efficacy and function of pot bottom ash

Many people may not know that the ash from the bottom of the pot has a special function. Try not to throw it away. It is better to keep it. There is a lot of nutrition in the ash from the bottom of the pot, so it is rare to see people throwing it away in rural areas. They would choose to pour the ash from the bottom of the pot into the fields as fertilizer. This fertilizer is much more useful than other fertilizers, and it can also act as an antidiarrheal. 】

The role of pot ash:

1. There are a lot of nutrients in pot ash, so all the ash in farmers' homes is poured into the fields as fertilizer.

2. Pot bottom ash has a strong anti-diarrhea function. When I was a child, I ate whatever I wanted and had diarrhea all the time. I had no money to buy medicine, so my grandmother would always use pot bottom ash to make a folk remedy for me, which worked very quickly.

Characteristics

It is black powder or small granules, which can be crushed into fine powder by hand. It is light and fine, like frost, and can fly with the wind, and float and disperse in water. Odorless and tasteless.

Function and indications

Stop bleeding and stop diarrhea. Used for vomiting blood, hemoptysis, bloody stool, functional uterine bleeding, diarrhea, and food accumulation and dysentery. Used externally to treat bleeding caused by trauma and epistaxis.

Dosage

1 to 3 qian; apply externally in appropriate amount and sprinkle on the affected area.

It has the effect of dispelling cold and relieving pain, and is effective for uterine coldness and waist and back pain caused by cold, dampness and qi stagnation.

It can treat dysmenorrhea in women caused by wind-induced coldness, qi stagnation and other reasons, and can play the role of warming the meridians, removing cold, promoting qi and relieving pain.

It has a good analgesic effect on stomachache, abdominal pain and dysmenorrhea caused by cold stagnation.

It can help eliminate gas and relieve pain.

Baicao Frost with Prescription

Treat vomiting blood

For treating vomiting blood, and damage caused by overeating and drinking, bending down to hold the head and scooping, lung damage, vomiting blood, sweating blood, and delirium in the mouth and nose, but without loss of voice: take 2 qian of 100 grass frost powder with glutinous rice soup. Two hundred grass frost and five cents, Sophora japonica flower powder and two ounces. Take 2 qian each time, with Imperata root soup. (Liu Changchun's Experience Prescription)

Treating epistaxis

To treat persistent nosebleed: blow the frost on the grass. (Compendium of Materia Medica)

Treat bleeding between teeth

To treat bleeding between teeth: mix it with powdered herb frost. (Binghu Collection of Simple Prescriptions)

Treat blood deficiency and internal heat

Treat internal heat due to blood deficiency, and metrorrhagia caused by blood not returning to its source: one liang of old Sophora japonica flowers and half a liang of Baicao Frost. For the end. Take one or two coins each time, and drink with a red-hot weight and quenched with wine. (Good Prescriptions for Women)

Treat metrorrhagia and severe hemorrhage

To treat severe metrorrhagia in women: Take 3 grams each of Baicao Frost and Paojiang (powder), and 3 grams of ginseng, boil them into a soup and drink it. (Compendium of Materia Medica)

Treating leucorrhea in women

To treat leucorrhea in women: one liang of Baicao Frost and half a liang of Xiangjinmo. Grind into powder, take three grams each time, add a leaf of pig liver, cut it open and put it into the medicine, wrap it with paper and simmer it until cooked, chew it carefully, and drink it with warm wine. (Yongleiqianfang)

Treating continuous bleeding

To treat sudden and persistent bleeding: one liter of stove dust, five liang of Coptis chinensis, and three liang of Sanguisorba officinalis. Pound and sieve the above three ingredients into powder, take one square inch of it with porridge, three times a day. For severe cases, take once at night. (Secret Prescriptions of Waitai)

Treat intestinal and uterine bleeding

Treatment of intestinal bleeding and uterine bleeding: Baicao Frost, donkey-hide gelatin, lotus root nodes, Platycladus orientalis leaves, angelica, and Imperata root. Grind into powder, make into pills with honey, and take with warm wine. (Shuxue Pills in Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Annals)

Treat bloody dysentery

For treating bloody dysentery, regardless of distance: one liang of Coptis chinensis (remove the beard and lightly stir-fry), two liang of Stovetopus moxibustion, and half a liang of costus root. Grind the above medicine into powder and take 2 qian of it with porridge before meals. (Sheng Hui Fang)

Treating the initial stage of dysentery

To treat all initial stages of dysentery: 3 qian of Baicao Frost, 1 qian of Golden Ink, 7 fen of Pinellia, 14 grains of Croton (boiled) (grind evenly), 3 qian of Yellow Wax. Dissolve it with sesame oil and mix it into a dose. Take three to five pills, or forty to fifty pills each time, with ginger soup.