Dan ginseng 
 
 
Luo Xinghong Nanjing university of Chinese medicine
Zhao Xia Chinese medicine hospital of jiangsu province 
 
 
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        Salvia miltiorrhiza for labiatae plants danshen root and rhizome of dry, alternaria alternata in anhui, jiangsu and other places. With a thick, purple is preferred. Have pain, dispelling stasis blood menstruation and call except vexed, etc. Used to menstruation to be not moved, amenorrhea dysmenorrhea, hepatosplenomegaly, angina pectoris, etc. 
 
        Alias names have red ginseng, hill, purple red sage root, red root, warm red, violet dangshen, red ginseng, etc. 
 
        Legend story 
 
        Salvia miltiorrhiza roots in Burgundy, folk have described it as "educational", which is associated with a touching story circulating. 
 
        According to legend a long time ago, the east China sea shore of a fishing village there lived a call "amin" youth. Amin from his father, and mother lived alone, because have been brought up in the wind and waves, and learned a good water, called "small dragon". One year, a-ming mother suffered from gynecopathy, often blood under the ren, please a lot of doctors, are not cured, amin is very helpless. As at this point, some people say that there is a nameless island in the east China sea, the island with a grass, flowers purple, blue, red root of herbs, to the roots of this herb decoct soup to drink, can cure his mother's illness. Amin after listen to, pleasantly surprised, then decided to go to the unknown island herbalism. People in the village heard later, were holding the 1 amin, because not only to the unknown island sea reefs, and fast-flowing, for prisoners to ten nine dead, Jude "gate of hell". But rather than later, a-ming mother eager, resolutely decided to sea island herbalism. 
 
        The next day, amin sailed out to sea. He with superb sailing technology and water, bypassing the reef, running through the waters, one by one, finally through smoothly boarded the unknown island "gate of hell". Ashore, he searched for the open purplish blue flowers, herbs root is red. Each find a tree, then to dig out the root, dug a large bundle of that soon. After return to fishing village, amin daily serve mother take medicine on time, mother's illness recovered soon. 
 
        The villagers to amin die herbalism for mother, admire very much. All say a contemplated firebombing this herb is perhaps the epitome of amin, was named the root red herbs "steps". Later in the process of circulating, take its harmonics becomes "danshen".
 
 
 
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