This dirty thing is only available in rural areas, but it is very useful

The theory of traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the correspondence between heaven and man, and believes that everything created by nature has its reason for existence. Don't underestimate any entity, it may play an important role at a critical moment!

Stove core soil, a common thing in our rural areas, plays an important role in traditional Chinese medicine. Stove core soil refers to the burnt yellow soil block in the center of the bottom of an earthen stove used to burn wood, weeds, coal, etc. When dismantling and repairing a wood-burning stove, remove the sintered soil blocks, scrape off the charred parts and impurities with a knife, and then you can use it.

Stove Heart Soil, also known as Fulong Liver, is warm in nature, spicy in taste, and belongs to the spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of warming the middle, stopping bleeding, stopping vomiting and stopping diarrhea. The soil in the heart of the stove is formed after being refined by fire for a long time. Although it has the shape of soil, it has the nature of fire. The soil in the heart of the stove belongs to the earth in the five elements and its nature belongs to the middle burner, so it has the power to warm the center. For symptoms such as deficiency of spleen and stomach yang in the middle jiao and bleeding caused by the spleen failing to regulate blood,

Zhongjing created the recipe of "Yellow Earth Decoction" in "Golden Chamber Synopsis", "If there is bleeding, first in the stool and then in the blood, this is distant blood, and Yellow Earth Decoction is the main treatment." The general meaning is: if there is blood in the stool, or the blood comes out after the stool, it is mostly from a place far away from the anus and closer to the anus, and can be treated with loess soup. The distant blood in this article is equivalent to bleeding caused by modern diseases such as ulcerative colitis, colorectal cancer or polyps, hemorrhoids, anal fissures, etc.

In clinical practice, the application of stove heart soil is far more than the symptom of bloody stool. It can be used for bleeding symptoms seen in various diseases, such as metrorrhagia in gynecological diseases, hemorrhagic purpura in blood diseases, upper gastrointestinal bleeding in spleen and stomach diseases, etc. As long as the syndrome is diagnosed as spleen deficiency in the middle burner and spleen fails to regulate blood, it can be used.

In addition, the stove heart soil has the effect of warming the middle and stopping vomiting and diarrhea, and it also has a certain effect on vomiting and diarrhea caused by disharmony between the spleen and stomach.

There are some points to note about the method of decocting stove core soil: 15-30g, wrapped in cloth, decocted first; or 60-120g decocted in water.