Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) (2) - Perilla story 
 
 
The 2015-1-9 
 
 
Categories: traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) legend story 

    Sue purple] ┃ ━ ━ [story] 2 
 
    September 9, the double ninth festival, a group of rich young man in the hotel to eat crabs. Each big crab is more oil and yellow, they are the more you have, the more sweet. Eat empty crab shells pile on the table became a small tower. 
     

    Hua tuo with disciple, also here to drink. When he saw the young like crazy game to eat crab, then kindly persuade way: 
 
    "Crab is cold, do not eat more. Young man, you match eat crab is not good." 
 
    Teenagers are not happy: "we eat what they buy, who listen to your hand!" 
 
    Hua said: "eat many would upset, then can have dangerous life!" 
 
    "To go to, don't scare people here! We are eating is dead, and it's none of your business!" 
 
    These drunken teenagers don't listen to reason, continue to eat. Some even cried. 
 
    "Who heard of crab is delicious, can eat the dead? Let's open the belly to eat our, slow death that old man!" 
 
    Hua tuo to see them too much, he said to the owner: 
 
    "Can't sell them, will be deadly." 
 
    The landlord is going to earn more money from the gang young knots, where listening to hua tuo? He put the face plate, said. 
 
    "Is something was wrong is not you. You mind your own business, don't stirred my business!" 
 
    Hua tuo sighed and had to sit down to eat their own wine. 
 
    Wait until the middle of the night, the gang young suddenly yell collywobbles, some pain sweat, roll others overturned on the table. 
 
    The landlord stunned and hurriedly ask: "how did you do?" 
 
    "Pain is broken, a doctor, please help us!" 
 
    "It's the middle of the night, let me go to where the doctor?" 
 
    "Please do a good boss, doctors don't come, our life would be!" 
 
    At this time, hua tuo through: 
 
    "I am the doctor." 
 
    "Ah!" Teenagers frightened to disgrace: this is not the don't let the old man eat crabs? They also can not consider what face, each holding a belly, cried: "Sir, would you please give correct!" 
 
    "You just said don't I tube?" Hua tuo said. 
 
    "Mr Adult don't record mean person. Have a heart and help us. How much money do you want to say." 
 
    "I don't want money." 
 
    "That you want to the other." 
 
    "I want you to promise one thing!" 
 
    "Don't say a, one thousand, ten thousand of them. You are quick to say what is it?" 
 
    "In the future, you have to listen to the counsel of the old man, and no nonsense!" 
 
    "Must, must. You quick help!" 
 
    Hua tuo let them wait, he with a student in the field, collected some stem leaf of radix arnebiae seu lithospermi back, teenagers decoct soup to drink. After a while, their stomach pain. Hua tuo q: 
 
    "Drink this medicine, think of it?" 
 
    "Much more comfortable." 
 
    Hua tuo thought: this herb also don't have a name, the patient had it does feel comfortable. The future is called it "purple shu"! 
 
    Teenagers thousand thanks and say goodbye to hua tuo, went home. Hua tuo and said to the landlord: 
 
    Had a narrow squeak "ah, you don't visit to make money, regardless of family life!" 
 
    The landlord nodding. 
 
    Hua tuo left the hotel and disciple asked: 
 
    "What the crab detoxification borage leaves in the book?" 
 
    Hua tuo tell disciple storyteller and no, this is I learned from animals. 
 
    The original one summer, hua tuo in jiangnan herb gathering on a river. He saw an otter caught a big fish. Devour the otter for a long time, the belly up, like a drum. It for a while in the water, while the shore; Lie down for a moment, for a while back and forth. This, it seems, the otter extremely afflictive. But then, it climbed to the shore, next to a piece of radix arnebiae seu lithospermi ate some of grass, and lie down for a while is ok. Hua tuo thought, fish belong to cold sex, radix arnebiae seu lithospermi belongs to the warm, radix arnebiae seu lithospermi can fish detoxification. Since then, he has written in the heart. 
 
    Later, hua tuo also made the stem leaf of radix arnebiae seu lithospermi and scattered. He found that the herbal medicine also has the function of table scattered can benefit spleen, lung, spleen, wide, cough, phlegm, can cure many diseases. 
 
    Originally, because this herb is purple, eat the stomach is very uncomfortable, so, give it was named "purple" shu hua tuo, but somehow, then people call it "basil" - this is probably the sound of nearly mixed up. 
 
 
The original link: http://nanyanghanhuagang.blog.163.com/blog/static/69902717201010465415237/