Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (11), radix paeoniae alba 

    Hua tuo love planting herbs as specimens to distinguish authenticity of medicine, prevent the wrong medicine. He in his plant behind the house is full of herbs. One day, a foreign businessman to see HuaTuoAi herbs, and from the mountains to dig a tree Que flowers to hua tuo and hua said: "this Que this is wild flowers, the somebody else all say it can cure, do not know true and false, I will give you a tree, you tested it." Hua tuo was the Que flowers planted in the out of the window. Spring, Que flowers, hua tuo first taste of flowers, taste after leaves. Because of hua tuo Que herb gathering season hasn't mastered, Que about spring flowers can't medicine more don't understand, just feel it without what ingredients, there is nothing special, just put it there, been put not ignore it for several years.
 
    A day night, night, cool autumn wind, to the window, hua tuo is writing books carefully under the lamp, put some medicine to a record with a certain disease. Are written between, only heard a woman crying outside the window, he looked up and out of the window and against the moonlight a beautiful woman wearing green and wore a red flower. Whose young children, "ah! This is the crying out late at night, by what injustice?" Hua tuo then go out and see, but the eastern Chou west looked at, but not half of the figure, I saw the woman standing where it is that tree greenery Que flowers. Hua tuo thought: is it? He looked at the Que flowers, shook his head, soliloquize ground to say: "since you have efficacy, now is early autumn, flower xie elymus already, also is not much use, and your body and white place cannot medicine!" Then turned and went back to the house. Just sat down to the room and hear the woman cry, looked up and her. He looked out again, still nobody. The woman standing still is that Que flowers. A few times in a row.
 
    Hua tuo feel very strange, you wake up lady, put what had just happened to the lady said it again. Lady said: "the flowers and plants, behind the house are you planted in your hand is good medicine, cure many diseases, saved many people, only the tree Que useless courty flowers over there. I thought: may be you didn't take it to heart, you don't understand it, it felt sad cry." Hua said: "I have already tried many times, Mosaic terriers are useless, but how medicine." Lady said: "the Mosaic you are tried, you have tasted the root?" Hua tuo and said, "Mosaic terriers are useless, root and what taste." China lady see some impatient, he also don't go ahead, he said: "well, it was already rather late, you rest." Hua tuo feel very tired, and fell asleep.
 
    Mrs Warren more think more sleep, more think more feel strange, always thought Que spent crying is injustice, it maybe it hasn't been found. No, I have idea fulfilled it. Rose up in the morning, Mrs Warren took a kitchen knife to cut food, accidentally hand by a kitchen knife and blood immediately come up. Busy lady called hua tuo. Hua tuo, quickly take knife wound medicine apply is on the wound. But blood stream down, 1 vigorously to outflow. HuaTuoKe no way out. Lady then said: "you might as well spend Que dig point to apply the give it a try." Hua tuo was dug a little Que take root, pound mud apply is on the wound. Wow, can be efficacious, blood stopped immediately. After a few days later, wound healing, even without a trace.
 
    Mrs Hua said: "thanks to you remind me, are you still bleeding for it, if it weren't for you, give good medicine blindly to bury." After the hua tuo Que flowers made detailed test, found that it not only can stop bleeding, invigorate the circulation, and has the effect of analgesia, tonic, regulate the menstrual function, it written in "qing capsule", to add a word "medicine" called "peony flowers". Because of hua tuo cultivation experiments, peony and qiaocheng ling (today's bozhou) vigorously developed, then development to sichuan, hangzhou, shaanxi and other places, but in order to produce the qiaocheng ling big, color white, powder, is called "radix paeoniae alba. 
 
 
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