The efficacy of peach blossom porridge

① Treat beriberi, water retention in the waist, kidneys and bladder, and phlegm: Peach blossoms, dry in the shade, take one liter, and pound into powder. Mix with warm sake, take it all at once, and take it on an empty stomach. After a while, you will be able to pass six or seven bowels. However, the undigested food will be completely discharged. If you feel hungry in the middle, eat a little soft rice or porridge. (Peach Blossom Powder from "Wai Tai")

② Treat constipation: Take a square inch of peach blossom with water. (Qianjin Fang)

③Treat dry feces blocking the intestines, bloating and pain: 1 liang of peach blossom (wet), 3 liang of flour. Mix the above medicines with the flour to make wontons, cook until done, eat on an empty stomach, and in the afternoon, there will be a rumbling in the stomach, and bad things will pass out. (Sheng Hui Fang)

④ Treating postpartum constipation: Peach blossom, sunflower seeds, talcum powder, betel nut, 1 liang each. Pound the above medicines into powder, mix with scallion soup and take 2 qian before each meal. (Peach blossom powder in Shenghui Fang)

⑤ Treat back pain and paralysis: 1 dou 1 liter of peach blossom, 3 dou of well water, 6 liters of koji, 6 dou of rice. Cook for one hour, brew until hot, remove the dregs, take 1 liter each time, 3 times a day. If used as food or drink, use river water, and do not use medicine. (Qianjin Fang)

⑥ Treat heart and stomach pain: Dry peach blossoms and grind them into powder. Take 2 qian of it with water, and half qian for children. ("Meng Shen Fang")

⑦ Treat persistent malaria: Grind peach blossoms into powder and take with wine. ("Mei Shi Ji Yan Fang")

⑧ Treating back sores and carbuncle: Pick peach blossoms at dawn, grind them with strong vinegar to remove the residue, and apply the juice on the sores. (Shengji Zonglu)

⑨Treat baldness: Collect unopened peach blossoms and dry them in the shade, grind them into powder with equal parts of red mulberry, and mix with pig fat. First wash off the scab with ash juice, then apply the medicine. ("Meng Shen Fang")

⑩Treatment of yellow water discharge on face and eye sores: Grind peach blossoms into fine powder. Take a small amount of it after meals with half a cup of water, three times a day. ("Hai Shang Ji Yan Fang")

⑾Treat foot ulcers: Peach blossom and salt in equal parts. Pound them well, mix with vinegar and apply on the affected area. (Zuo Hou Fang)