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Chapter 230 Plant ash (for subscription)
"After washing, not only the taste of the chili will change, but the aroma will also be lowered to a lower level. Besides...even if it is not washed, the chili is still clean."

Studio.

"You... picked it up from the stove and threw it into the pot, isn't it dirty?"

"Anchor, do you think we are blind?"

"I saw so much ash on it with my own eyes... I just threw it into the pot."

"The anchor is right, this is how you want to eat this dried chili!"

"Didn't the anchor wipe it all over just now... Besides, it's plant ash, what's the matter?"

"Plant ash is also ash!"

"Don't worry, you won't die if you eat it, plant ash is much cleaner than the detergent and washing powder you usually use!"

"Pull it down! Who are you fooling?"

Li Yuan couldn't help but shook his head and smiled wryly.

"Friends, I really have to justify the name of plant ash. It is indeed cleaner than the usual dishwashing liquid, and the earliest detergent was plant ash."

"Plant ash is alkaline when hydrolyzed, so it has a strong degreasing effect. In the past, when there was no detergent, the old people used this method to clean dishes and chopsticks."

"In ancient times, plant ash was a kind of cleaning agent commonly used by people. "Kao Gong Ji" says: Before dyeing silk fabrics, it must be "retting with water". The water mentioned here is "water with ash". It is the so-called dissolving plant ash in water to form plant ash water."

"The "Book of Rites Nei Ze" once said, 'Clean the dirt on the crown with the ashes; clean the dirt from the clothes with the ashes'. It shows that when the ancients washed the clothes and crowns, they used the solution soaked in plant ash .”

"And this is all because plant ash contains potassium carbonate, so dirt can be removed. This method was quite common in the old days. Until modern times, in some remote rural areas, the custom of washing clothes with plant ash water is still preserved."

Studio.

"Really?"

"The anchor really knows a lot."

"All kinds of articles come here... Isn't the anchor too knowledgeable?"

"It's really made of plant ash! But this thing... looks very dirty!"

"Dirty? You really misunderstood, this thing is very clean!"

"I think the plant ash used to be really good, at least it doesn't pollute the environment..."

Li Yuan smiled and said, "Well, indeed."

"For people in the past, plant ash was a very magical thing, and people's wisdom maximized the value of plant ash!"

Studio.

"Can plant ash be used for anything else?"

"In the countryside, I saw that the ashes of plants and trees were thrown away, and I didn't do anything else."

"I know this, plant ash seems to be a good fertilizer! It turns out that the straw in the countryside is burned directly in the field, and the burned plant ash will not be pulled out, and the crops will be better the next year!"

"I know this. My family's land was handled like this ten years ago, but it's not allowed now."

"It really is!"

Li Yuan nodded.

"Well, indeed, I would often see this when I was a child. Every time I harvested the crops in autumn, I would pick a windless weather and gather the straw and weeds in the field and set them on fire."

"With a fire, the whole field can be cleaned up immediately, but I have to say that although this method is good, but because of this custom, many accidents have happened, and it is normal to be replaced."

"However, crops without plant ash will indeed have a worse harvest."

"So this is also one of the characteristics of plant ash, that is, it can be used as a fertilizer."

"However, there are many considerations for using plant ash as farmyard manure. The most important one is that it cannot be used with organic farmyard manure!"

Studio.

"What is Organic Farmyard Manure?"

"Yes, anchor, what is this organic farmyard manure?"

"You all know this?"

"Brothers... Organic farmyard manure is just human waste!"

"Horse dung and cow dung also count!"

"My friends, I'm eating instant noodles..."

"I panicked in front of the camera while eating snail noodles."

"Well, I decided to squat for another 5 minutes in the toilet to make a little more contribution to our country's organic farmyard manure."

"This topic, please stop here."

Li Yuan couldn't help but smiled in front of the screen and said: "Okay, at the request of the majority of netizens, let's not discuss this topic for now, let's talk about other precautions."

"It is well known that vegetation is alkaline, so the soil used should be clay soil, acidic or neutral soil. Soil application can be used as base fertilizer, seed fertilizer and top dressing, and can also be used as mulch for seedling and seedling raising."

"When used as base fertilizer and seed fertilizer, the amount of fertilizer should not be too large and should be separated from the seeds to prevent burning the seeds. For top dressing outside the roots, more than 90% of the potassium contained in plant ash can be dissolved in water, so it is also called It is a quick-acting potassium fertilizer. According to this characteristic, the plant ash can be used as top dressing outside the roots, that is, the plant ash extract with a concentration of 1% is used for leaf spraying."

"In addition, plant ash is more suitable for potassium-loving or potassium-preferring and chlorine-avoiding crops, such as potatoes and sweet potatoes that are usually grown in every household, as well as grapes and sunflowers on farms. These beans are suitable."

"Especially for plants like potatoes, it can be used not only for soil application, but also for potato wounds, so that it can be used as a seed fertilizer and prevent wound infection and rot.

"Because potassium can promote nitrogen metabolism and sugar synthesis and transportation in plants, making plants grow stronger, and can effectively enhance the plants' ability to resist diseases, insect pests and natural disasters."

"Not only that, but it also has the effect of improving the drought resistance of plants and ensuring the smooth progress of various metabolic processes, so it is a very good natural chemical fertilizer."

Studio.

"Plant ash is such a good fertilizer?"

"But why isn't plant ash used as fertilizer now?"

"It must be more laborious to make plant ash!"

"That is, other fertilizers can be mass-produced, but this plant ash... how to produce it?"

"Nowadays, there are still a lot of ash in the countryside. They are all picked up from the stove pit of their own homes. They are used on a large scale... I have never seen it before."

Li Yuan continued: "In addition to being used as fertilizer, plant ash has many wonderful uses."

"In traditional Chinese medicine, plant ash is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. Its function is to dispel cold and reduce swelling, eliminate symptoms and break accumulation. It has a very good effect on Kashin-Beck disease, carbuncle, gangrene and malignant flesh."

"Grass ash is pungent and warm. It is also known as winter ash, quinoa ash and firewood ash."

Studio.

"Plant ash... used as medicine?"

"Is this a bit ridiculous?"

"Just kidding?"

"Really, can't this eat dead people?"

"Why do I feel that this sounds a bit mysterious?"

Li Longhui: "I've heard some of this. In the history of Chinese medicine, there is indeed a precedent for treating with plant ash."

(End of this chapter)