Traditional Chinese medicine (1) - ephedra story 
 
 
The 2010-11-04 18:54:15 | 
 
 
Categories: traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) legend story 

    [ma huang] ┃ ━ ━ a small story 】 【 
 
    An old man digging medicine, childless, received a disciple. Until all is mad, and the disciple who want to learn a little fur, look down on the master. Sometimes sell medicine nor money to teacher, own secretly spent. Torn, master to disciple said: 
 
    "Your wings hard, another portal." 
 
    Disciple fall secular: "ok!" 
 
    The master is not safe to say: "however, there is a kind of medicine, you can't literally sell to eat." 
 
    "What?" 
 
    "Leaves of grass."     
 
    "What's wrong?" 
 
    "This grass roots and stems use different; sweating with stems, stop sweat with root, once made a mistake, will be dead! Remember?" 
 
    "Remember." 
 
    "You back again." 
 
    Student never back again. However, his back, that she never think useless mind too. 
 
    Since then, iused to break up, their selling drugs. Master not in sight, be more daring in disciple, although know the drug is not much, but dare to treat what disease. A few days later, let he cured the dead leaves of grass. Which willing to tolerate the relatives of the dead, then take him to see a county magistrate. County magistrate asked: 
 
    "With whom did you learn?" 
 
    Disciple had to say, his master's name. County magistrate ordered get teacher, said: 
 
    "How do you teach? Let him rule of man is dead!" 
 
    The master said: "little innocent." 
 
    "How can you say you not guilty?" 
 
    "On the leaves of grass, I clearly taught him a few words of formula." 
 
    County magistrate heard this, he asked disciple: 
 
    "Do you remember? I listen to back out." 
 
    Apprentice back: "sweating with stems, stop sweat with root, once made a mistake, will be dead." 
 
    County magistrate asked again: "patients have no sweat?" 
 
    Disciple replied: "was sweating all over." 
 
    "What do you use medicine?" 
 
    "Leaves of grass stems. 
 
    County magistrate is great anger: "it's Hu Zhi! The patient has been sweating with sweat medicine, also can not die?" Played disciples said, "life four big plate, DaYu for three years. The teacher that's ok, you can give classroom release. 
 
    Apprentice at the end of three years in prison, this just be honest. He found the master to recognize a mistake, said recognition. Teacher saw he had a change, this just leave him, and teaches him to be. Play here, the disciple in "leaves of grass" are very careful. Because the grass through catastrophe had trouble for him, the name is called "grass" trouble, later because the grass roots is yellow, then called "ephedra" instead. 

 
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