What is the effect of pot bottom ash

In rural areas, people generally use large stoves to cook. After the stove is burned for a long time, there will be a thick layer of ash, also called bottom ash. When the soil accumulates too thick, people in the countryside will scrape it off and dump it in trash cans or orchards. But in fact, the ash from the bottom of the pot has many medicinal effects and can treat many diseases. For example, it has certain effects on some gynecological diseases in women; it can also help children with gastrointestinal indigestion, etc.

The ash from the bottom of the pot is called "Baicao Frost", "Stove Top Ink", "Dust in the Stove Top", "Ink on the Stove Top", etc. in traditional Chinese medicine. It is commonly called charcoal ash, bottom of the pot ash, black bottom of the pot, etc.

Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Spicy and warm, non-toxic." "It can stop all kinds of bleeding, metrorrhagia and leukorrhea in women, various diseases before and after pregnancy, typhoid fever, yang poison and madness, jaundice, dysentery, and all kinds of sores in the throat, mouth and tongue." Miao Xiyong's "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the Ming Dynasty pointed out: "The frost of all herbs is formed by smoke, it tastes spicy, warm and non-toxic. The pungent property disperses the food, so it can help digest stagnant food and cause leucorrhea. ''From this we can see that medical scientists such as Li Shizhen and Miao Xiyong gave high praise to pot bottom ash and even recorded it in their works.

The ash at the bottom of the pot is the smoke left on the bottom of the pot or in the chimney after weeds are burned. Scrape or sweep it through a fine sieve to remove impurities.

Baicao Frost with Prescription

To treat unexplained swelling and blockage of the throat: 2 qian each of Baicao Frost and white borax. Grind into fine powder and blow into throat.

To treat epistaxis (external bleeding in certain parts of the body not caused by trauma): blow the powder of Baicao Frost on it.

For treating vomiting blood, and injury caused by alcohol and food intoxication 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.

To treat bleeding between teeth: mix it with powdered herb frost.

Treat blood deficiency, internal heat, and metrorrhagia due to 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.

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.

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.

Treatment of intestinal bleeding and uterine bleeding: Baicao Frost, donkey-hide gelatin, lotus root nodes, cypress leaves, angelica, and imperata root. Grind into powder, make into pills with honey, and take with warm wine.

For treating bloody dysentery, regardless of distance: 1 liang of Coptis chinensis (remove the beard and lightly stir-fry), 2 liang of Stovetopus moxibustion, and 0.5 liang of costusroot. Grind the above medicine into powder and take 2 qian of it with porridge before meals.

For treating children's food accumulation and malnutrition: 3 grams of Baicao Frost and 1 fen of Croton Frost. Grind evenly, mix with flour to make paste into pills as big as mung beans. Take one pill each time, dissolve with plain soup.