A stick, a bowl, smashing medicinal materials, what is this thing called?

A stick and a bowl are used to smash medicinal materials called a stone mortar.

Stone mortars are production tools made by humans from various stones and used for smashing, pounding, and grinding medicinal materials and foods.

The stone mortar is an instrument used for pounding rice. It is square in shape, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. It is placed in the soil, with only the mouth of the mortar exposed above the ground.

As the wooden mortar was bumped up and down, the rice shells and skins peeled off in the stone mortar, revealing dark red and snow-white rice grains.

A small stone mortar can be used to smash, pound, grind and grind medicinal materials.

Before electrified production, human grains were mainly processed into food using this production tool.

It can be said that stone mortars were necessities for ancient human life, and stone mortars and wells were symbols of human settlements.

After humans entered the electrification era, stone mortars were gradually eliminated.

Expanded information: How to choose a mortar: Pottery is easy to break, not cost-effective, and is only suitable for pounding things that are easy to pound, such as garlic; wood mortars and bamboo mortars are light and easy to carry, but the most important thing is that they are basic

These types of materials contain glue and paint, which are quite harmful to the human body. Steel and iron mortars look good, but they will rust after being used for a long time. Even stainless steel ones are ugly after being used for a long time.

Stone mortars are made of many materials, such as bluestone, marble, granite, artificial stone powder, etc. Among them, bluestone mortars are the top grade and have the highest cost performance.

Marble contains radiation. In addition to high radiation, artificial stone also contains toxic substances such as high-pressure glue, such as white marble mortar.