The Miracle That Is Potassium

If one were to take a plant and burn it to ash, and then take that ash and boil and evaporate it, the residue would be pot ash.

Our extremely resourceful ancestors did just this. They once gathered plants, burned them, then took the ash, the pot ash; boiled and evaporated it for the residue to make soap, which everyone knows to be a cleansing agent, an alkalizer, antacid, or neutralizer.

Much later in 1807 the element garnered, or collected from this pot ash, became known as Pot-ash-ium, or, Potassium.

Every single vitamin and mineral have a story just as interesting, and there …read more