Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (8) -- rhizoma anemarrhenae 

Mother [know] ━ ━ [story] eight
 
Once upon a time there was a old great grandmother, childless, mainly by digging medicine when I was young. Because she is not money, often give the sick who are poor, herbs white so no savings. To the elderly can't climb a mountain herbalism, she had to township along the beggar. Old woman pull a long face all day long, this is not because bitter life hard; She worried that her confess medicine skill nobody can pass, if he closed his eyes, who give folks digging medicine cure! Want to want to go to, old woman is determined to find a reliable person to teach. So, she would tell people: "who confess I do mom, I taught him to recognize the herbs."
 
Some time later, there was a childe know, thought: "if I had learned to heal, don't is more a way of official of curry favor with?" He put the old woman come in office, said: "old woman, I am willing to give you when his son, just tell me what the herbal medicine!"
 
Old woman caught a glimpse of childe, said: "what's the rush? First look at how you treat me this' mom '."
 
Childe immediately ordered the first went to the old woman, and give her put on new clothes, delicious food. However, after more than ten days in a row, and see old woman filed a matter of the herbs. Childe couldn't help it, pretending to shout a voice "mama", said: "the send medicine to me!"
 
"While still early."
 
"What have to wait until that day?"
 
"Wait a decade eight years."
 
"What?" Childe spirit jumped up: "still have to feed you decade? Hum, roll you! Don't want to cheat to eat cheat to drink!"
 
Old woman sneer at 1, change the original rags, and leisurely walked out of the sun of the house. She was begging along the street, while chanting in mouth: "who give me when my son, I teach who know cure life-saving herbs! Who is willing to give me when my son ah?..."
 
One day, is a businessman who heard it. He thought: "sell medicines but very lucrative business!" Merchant quickly hello old woman said: "I will recognize you when mama!"
 
The old woman fell to the businessman. Businessman delicious good drink to wait on the old woman for a month, also suppress not ask: "do you really know the herbs?"
 
"Of course!"
 
"It taught me."
 
"Now is not the time."
 
We have to wait for how long? ""
 
"When I die......"
 
"Oh?" Businessman trembled with anger: "you are a dead old woman, take me when the monkey playing! Go, go fast for your meal!"
 
"Are you, please let me!"
 
"Hum, I'm blind!"
 
Old woman was out of the door, or a beggar while murmuring: "who recognize me as a mother, I taught who herbs..."
 
Last, people have put the old woman as a madman, who is also her anymore.
 
Annual winter, old woman went to a small village, falls in a door. The owner of this house is a woodcutter, mixed into the house, he took the old woman asked: "old woman, broke? Whether disease?"
 
"Ill have no, I'm hungry."
 
The woodcutter hurriedly call daughter-in-law boil a pot of porridge, end to the old woman, said: "there is nothing good in the home, hot drink first."
 
Old woman ate porridge, was also warmer and warmer, so soon. The woodcutter couple said: "this great cold weather, where are you going?"
 
"Now," said the old woman sighed, and said, "I this poor man begging!"
 
Couple learns, very sympathy, he said: "you so big age, begging is not easy. If you don't think we are poor, just stay here!"
 
Old woman also not refuse, is living in the house the woodcutter. Days passed very quickly, suddenly spring flowers, old woman said to the woodcutter, "the old eat your dinner how line? Let me go!"
 
The woodcutter said: "you old son didn't woman, we don't have the old man again, let's gather together into a family to live is not quite good?"
 
Old woman sighed: "real not: in the past I'll herbalism, meet many life-saving herbs to treat diseases. I wanted to know a son, the ability to pass to him. But now a crazy, what herbs prefectly couldn't figure it out. You feed me, I can't repay you!"
 
The woodcutter said: "are suffering people, figure what reward? Anyway, we have to eat, you won't get hungry, don't go begging!"
 
"Well, then I'll take charge here, with you as with sons!"
 
"Ok."
 
From then on, the woodcutter and his wife took the old woman as a mother. Old woman eat rice also not idle, often help his wife to see children, do the housework. Daughter-in-law also pretty love old man, don't let the old man the fire - fear of hot June day. Month, don't let the old man in the laundry, afraid of cold water. The old woman at the end of three years enjoyable day.
 
Summer arrived, the old woman was eighty years old. One day, she suddenly said to the woodcutter: "children, I want to up the hill and see."
 
"Mom this great age, don't be tired."
 
"I'm bored with panic, want to go mountain."
 
"That I back you go."
 
The woodcutter carried old woman on the mountain. Old woman for a while to go to the east, in a short while to go to the west, in a short while to hill, in a short while to the ditch, pointing, too tired to the woodcutter sweat like rain; But the woodcutter doesn't complain, return in mouth say something funny without ceasing, want to let the old woman happy.
 
When they came to a piece of wild grass slope, the old woman let the woodcutter stopped, she came down from the woodcutter back, sitting on a rock, pointing to a clump of linear leaves and white flowers with purple streaks of weeds, said: "go, dig it!"
 
The woodcutter go uncovered, dug a root already tan. He asked: "mom, what's this?"
 
Old woman said: "this is a kind of herbs, the root of it can be treated lung cough, the consumptive disease, such as fever, USES a lot. Baby, do you know why it was not until today that I teach you know it?"
 
Woodcutter wanted to mean to say: "mother must have been looking for a talented person to send medicine to his being guileless, take it to those who are afraid of heart is bad to be rich, man people!"
 
Old woman smiled and said, "I'm looking for how many years, also didn't meet a nice man. Children, you really know my mind, and the medicine is called 'rhizoma anemarrhenae!"
 
Then the old woman and teach the woodcutter met many other herbs, the woodcutter was rerouted to herbalism. He remembered the old woman, like the old woman for the poor.