Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (15) -- fritillaria 
 
 

fritillaria 

    Have a got pregnant women "consumption these", because body weak, baby just born fainted, when she woke up, children had died. Even so, two in-laws and husband are very trouble.
 
    One day, pass in front of the blind fortune-teller, mother-in-law called fortune teller gave daughter-in-law calculate fortune-telling, a row of eight words. The blind man asked what? Her mother-in-law's daughter-in-law even had three dead child said. Tell fortune a Sir To put a birth horoscope once said: "your daughter-in-law to tiger, born QuShi, out of the hole is very fierce tiger; fetal belongs to the sheep, dog fetus, fetal pig. The pig, dog, sheep are tiger's mouth food, eaten by his mother,". The mother-in-law not letter, said: "tiger poison, which is not how to eat her kindred?" Fortune teller said: "this is doomed to save." Her mother-in-law asked: "is there a way to keep the next child child?" The blind are choked again once said: "to pour, afraid bother you!" Mother-in-law said: "no, says Mr Hide my three rooms with a son, and three incense burning furnace, as long as have a living child, and we will do anything. You Sir." Fortune teller said: "the regeneration of the fetus, outwit child mom. Run to the east, her child in her arms and ran out of the one hundred miles to the east China sea, where there is an island, climbed up the island is fine. A tiger is afraid of water, shall be under the sea, not on the island, can't eat child, the child can stay alive."
 
    Her mother-in-law said to the blind tells the old man and his son, they have several.
 
    Didn't arrive for a year, daughter-in-law and gave birth to a child. The same as before, just gave birth to the child, mother just passed out. Husband also did not take care of his wife, picked up the child and ran in the east. But ran out of the more than ten died in child. The family was very sad: "how to feed her child?"
 
    This day, again to the blind fortune-teller. The mother-in-law told his children die situation. The blind man said, "run slow, run faster than the tiger, the tiger overtake children, to keep the child."
 
    Yet another year, daughter-in-law and gave birth to a child, her husband prepared a fast horse, feed water. Baby just born, he was wrapped in red sheets, whack three jumped onto the horse whip, fast ran toward the east, such as a meteor run one hundred miles, to the east China sea, he jumped on a clippers, cross to the island to live down.
 
    The child's mother dizzy in the past more than an hour to wake up, see children out in a straight cry.
 
    From island last five days later, the husband: "climb the island only children and died three days." Family sadly, the old couple consult with his son, daughter-in-law to the take off, can support children to marry a. Daughter-in-law where crying sadly.
 
    At this time. After a doctor from the doorway, he walked into the house asked: "do you have any difficult thing?"
 
    Daughter-in-law told the story to a doctor.
 
    The doctor to look at her face ash heavy metal gray, decided that she was sick, he said:
 
    "Its own way, I call you to have a living child."
 
    In-laws and husband don't believe it.
 
    The doctor said: "the blind fortune-teller is nonsense, believe in him? You wife is not life hard, is sick. The lungs are evil, insufficient strength, coupled with the production force too hard, gave birth to the baby can't live longer. Liver ischemia, blood supply is insufficient, make women fainted. I teach you know a kind of herbal medicine, let her eat three months in a row, a year later, she can have a living child."
 
    Below the doctor's persuasion, in-laws daughter-in-law to stay, for if death children then take her again.
 
    From then on, her husband to up the mountain to dig the doctor taught medicine every day, daughter-in-law decoct soup to drink, drank three months, daughter-in-law conceived, October contractions that gave birth to a kid. Adults have no dizzy, children safe, close family am not on the mouth. Children after one hundred days, they bought many gifts, beating drums, thanks to the doctor.
 
    The doctor asked happily:
     
    "My herbal medicine will work?"
 
    "Spirit, true spirit!" My husband asked what was the name of this herb doctor?
 
    "It is grass, isn't there a name?"
 
    "We give it a name!"
 
    "Good!" The doctor wanted to think, ask a way: "what a name to it?"
 
    "My child named baby, the mother also security, is called fritillaria!"
 
    "What a resounding name! Yes, just call it fritillaria."
 
    And so the name "fritillaria" come down.