Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (14), huang jing 
 
 

Huang jing 

    In a long time ago, there was a parents, because of the little girl is forced to play long to a rich man's house. Cruel rich man forced her up the hill cutting wood to cut grass every day, cultivator, arable land, food, is to eat leftovers, but also do not have enough to eat. In desperation, the little girl had to dig potherb and grassroots eat when hungry.
 
    One day, a little girl hungry when I was working in the mountains of sweats, then hurriedly dig potherb and grass to eat. Accidentally, she found that in a damp the bushes, with some open light green flowers unknown plant, then come forward to pick to eat, it tastes sweet. She dug out the plant roots and find the root form such as the head of a dog than the tail of a lion, succulent hypertrophy, then wash and eat, find its fresh and delicious, much more like to eat fruit. Since then, whenever work is hungry, she ate it, unknowingly eat for several years. And she, also from a thin young is blossoming into a graceful girl, and the strong body, but without losing a girl slim plump.
 
    The rich man saw that girl have become so beautiful, so the color heart again, don't let her up the mountain or cultivator, labor, and forced her to do your little wife. To attain the girl not from, fled, and went to the mountains, live the life of a savage general. The rich man sent up her every day, but catch her, because the girl has two different as before, feet and who is not her opponent. To this end, the rich man heart feeling feel suspicious: this beautiful girl what had become so strong? And I give her to eat every day is a pig? For color heart and curiosity, the rich man will be more want to get her, life several strong assume every day up the hill to find the girl, vowed to get her!
 
    One day, a few assume again in a thick woods found the traces of a girl. But to see the girl is wearing a wreath of clothes, like man, but her body looks, is more charming. Assume the rush, hot pursuit. But in the blink of an eye, the girl was lost in their noses. This scene, just up the hill herbalism imperial doctor hua tuo to see. Hua tuo of offering savvy, what that girl must have eaten a panacea, so the body as light as yan, have legs, so that robust assume all to overtake her. Hua tuo was determined to find the opportunity to question, to take the drug benefit the plebeian inhabitants.
 
    One day, HuaTuoBei meals, and put in the girl often haunt the mountain road. Soon, the girl pass by here, for a long time not to eat the food she smell the fragrance of the food, feel more hungry splash. No one looked around, she could not help to pick up the Wolf down the food. Hua tuo XunBu forward from the side at this moment, the girl was horrified to drop the food to go, hua tuo, a pull her girl thinks she is the rich man sent people, struggling to bite and scratch on him. Hua tuo kindly said: "girl, don't be afraid of! I am not a rich man sent people. I'm a card shark, want to please you eat something so Sundays, have legs?" The girl see HuaTuoChang good-natured, don't like the bad guys, then no longer struggle, said: "I over there in the woods to eat a grassroots like chicken."
 
    "What the grassroots?" Hua tuo asked.
 
    "I don't know what it's called, but it is shaped like a head of a dog than the tail of a lion, please call it 'yellow chicken."
 
    Girl took warren to the bushes, pointing to the open unknown plant of light green flower said: "is the root of it." Hua tuo go ahead, but it's not well-known plants will be about one to two feet high, five round shaped leaves, leaf has a needle, meanwhile open clusters of pale green flowers. Hua tuo to dig the root, but the root is yellow-white, succulent hypertrophy, lateral growth, shape is like a head of a dog than the tail of a lion, one side has a circular stem scars, like corns. Personally taste, but taste sweet and delicious, fresh and pleasant. So he gave this well-known plant back to study in the home.
 
    Study found that the plant sexual flavour gan, ping, have to repair the efficacy of spleen lung, nourishing Yin, can be used in the treatment of body empty thin, qi and blood deficiency, phthisis, obstruction and phlegm-heat type. Cough syndrome, it is the essence of medicine. Later, hua tuo renamed it "yellow", and has been extended to now. The homeless girl and she has been hua tuo as dry daughter, followed by hua tuo to study medicine, practise medicine offers.
 
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