HuaTuoSan try ChenHao bitter

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        Legend has it, have a yellow wasting disease (jaundice), the complexion turmeric, eyes sag, extreme angular, find the hua tuo said: "sir, could you please give me to cure it." Hua tuo frown shook his head and said: "now the doctors have not found treatment to the yellow, I am also consumption can do nothing!"

        After six months, the hua tuo and run into that patients, found that he became very healthy, strong, faces with rosy cheeks. Hua tuo surprised, quickly ask a way: "you this disease is a doctor cured? Tell me, let me go with him to learn." The man replied: "I didn't ask the doctor to see, the disease is his good." Hua tuo not letter: "which there is such a thing! You must be eat what medicine?" "Medicine hadn't eaten, but because ChunHuang no food, and I had some wild grass." "This rightness! The grass is medicine, how much you eat day?" "More than a month." "What to eat grass?" They walk to the hillside, the man pointed to a piece of green grass said: "this is it." Hua tuo a look is only, then pick some, to other yellow wasting disease people to serve, but tried several times, and there were no effect. Hua tuo and asked the people, eating a few months from the, the patient said the march. Hua tuo wakes up to, spring march grass sprout, perhaps march HaoZi have efficacy.

        The following spring, the hua tuo and picked a lot of march artemisia, give yellow wasting disease people take, indeed as expected to eat a good one. For understanding the medicinal properties of artemisia, the third year, the hua tuo the roots, stems, leaves classification test, found that only young stem leaf can be medicine cure, and named it "gall".

        Hua tuo also make up for later generations song reference: "march ChenSiYue bitter from prison. Remember, to later generations march gall, between April aiming consumptive disease to make a fire with." (ZhouXiangQian)