"Rhizoma anemarrhenae" interesting

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        Rhizoma anemarrhenae is blindly commonly used antipyretic. The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks, know maternal Kennedy cold taste sweet, bitter, so have purging fire and heat, nourishing the dryness and characteristics, can treat the lung and stomach's real heat, deficiency of Yin with irritability cough caused by dryness, bone steaming hot flash, Yin deficiency, such as insomnia, intestinal dry constipation disease and syndrome. The compendium of materia medica prepared "cloud: rhizoma anemarrhenae" purging fire water, dryness slide intestinal. Hard cold slide. Supernatant lung gold and purging fire, embellish renal dryness and Yin, into two qi points. Away sputum fixed syndromes, thirst Ann tire. Cure typhoid vexed hot, Ru fatigue bone steaming, dry thirsty virtual vexed, long malaria, diarrhea, the ErBian, disappear is dropsy." In the clinical, rhizoma anemarrhenae often and gypsum, fritillaria, cortex phellodendri, pollen, radix polygoni multiflori equate with, more influential representative herbs have white tiger decoction, know, cypress dihuang pill, two female powder, etc. It should be pointed out that, the compendium of materia medica prepared "say, rhizoma anemarrhenae" avoid iron ", so you can't use iron vessel/fore-medicine.

        According to legend, once upon a time there was a dig medicine to a lonely woman, begging along the street looking for a honest honest epigenetic, want to put their own recognition medicine skill in his mouth. Soon, there is a rich childe found her. This childe have their own petty niggling: "learned to recognize pills, more than not curry favor with everywhere way." Then the old received home, good clothes good meal served. But after a 10 days, but not actually carry herbs, one day, he shed crocodile tears that the old man a sound "mama", asked about the medicine, granny replied: "wait a few years we'll see." Childe hopping mad, the old man out of the house.

        A year winter, she stumble came to a remote mountain village, for physical and mental gaunt and fell on a house door. Sound stirred the master. Master is a young woodcutter, he saw the old man poor let her live down, and perceived as a dopted mother, so after three years. One day, the old man suddenly to the woodcutter said: "children, you carry me to the mountains look at it." Then, the woodsman carried the old man went up to the mountain, when they came to a piece of the hill is choked up with weeds, the old man down, and sat down on a stone, pointed to a bundle linear leaves, opened a white with purple stripe shape flower weed said: "take it roots dig." The woodcutter dug a section tawny grassroots asked: "mom, what is this?" The old man said: "this is a kind of medicinal herbs, can rule lung hot cough, body virtual fever and so on disease. Children, you know why until today I just teach you recognize medicine?" The woodcutter wanted to mean to say: "mama is looking for a honest honest man preach he recognize medicine, afraid with bad intentions people take this skill to entrap the people!" Woman nodded: "or you know the meaning of the mother, the drug has no name, call it" rhizoma anemarrhenae '!"

        Later, she also taught the woodcutter met many kinds of herbs. The old man die, the woodcutter CaiYao profession, but he always remember the old man of words, sincere and sending medicine cure for the poor.