tooth powder made from roasted chickweed and salt
A traditional oral care preparation: chickweed (stitchwort) is roasted with salt and ground into a fine powder used as toothpaste. Rare term, mainly of historical or folk-medicine interest.
In the Edo period, people used hakobe-jio as tooth powder.
Standard spelling using katakana for the plant name and kanji for 塩.
Hiragana variant of the plant name; less common than the katakana form.
Rare kanji spelling using 繁縷 for ハコベ; mainly found in older or botanical texts.
Compound of ハコベ (chickweed) and 塩 (salt), describing the ingredients and preparation method.