Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (16) - honeysuckle 
 
 
honeysuckle

    Legend in a long time ago, in a remote village, lived a pair of industrious good couple. Young husband and wife gave birth to twins, and give the children a nice name, called "golden flower" and "honeysuckle" respectively. Golden flower yinhua thrive under the care of parents, soon became a girl as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade. They during the rural busy season the cultivator, help parents work, came with her mother when the needle embroidery, weaving yarn, herbalism, and self-study textbooks and up the hill so deep appreciation of parents and villagers.
 
    One summer, the village popular a kind of unknown strange disease. Invalid without exception, fever, high fever is not retreated, and erythema or papules on the up and down; Disease shortly after lying in bed, god faint delirious speech, then died. The card shark in the village are helpless, out-of-town are afraid to enter the card shark, see the whole village had to die. Stand up at this critical juncture, golden flower yinhua, volunteered to go out for doctor visits countrymen. And just then, the disease was also unhappy with their parents. Villagers are kindly advised they don't go to, to avoid frequent, but can't close to parents eyes. The sisters face be reluctant. At this time, parents to longly say: "go! Good boy! Do you want to get good medicine famous doctor or come back as soon as possible, otherwise don't come back to see us!" 
 
    Golden flower honeysuckle with tears, immediately pack dry food ready to go. Folks was moved to tears, told they have a good doctor visits and parents by the villagers take turns to take care of, don't miss, at such a time. The sisters, all the way to wade through countless rapids rapids, almost all over China, to visit the central plains famous doctors, but doctors were not know nothing about the disease, is due to the long way to go. One day, the sisters come to huashan, the night an ancient temple in the mountains. The courts a old monk asked them why travel-stained, face be reluctant. The sisters say.
 
    The old monk from crying, fingers out of the window far away immediately said to them: "there is a mountain, ninety-nine miles away from the mountain a hut, relative lived an old card shark. You may wish to refer to." The sisters were called exultation, immediately go, ninety-nine miles away in less than an hour arrived, I saw outside the hut is full of waiting for the doctor of the villagers. Into the hut, but see a dance the peacock hair, face, wise old man is dying for a farmer inspection, auscultation and olfaction, inquiry, and pulse-taking and palpation, presumably this is the old advice.
 
    The sisters come forward to explain why. Old card shark thoughtfully: "you folks have toxic heat disease..." Said, "he said, pointing to a room full of waiting to see the doctor the farmer told the sisters:" there is an epidemic, I could never give up. However, I can teach you a method, by the side of hills, valleys and forests is to collect a early summer flowering, the flowers solitary, axillary in pairs when open white, after become yellow, yellow and set each other off, winter does not fall, called 'honeysuckle herbs, it can cure your folks."
 
    Old card shark further said: "this medicine stems twining trees, a few meters long, winding; left middle empty, many-branched, color is brown. It's petals as the rod bent, 2 to 3 minutes long, wide 1 to 3 points; the color yellow, fine; I have oval leafy bracts; hypanthium glabrous. Sepals by hairs; corolla tube, the top five, lobes with crown nearly equal; stamens 5, ovary inferior. Smell the fragrance, slightly bitter taste."
 
    The sisters listen to, immediately, don't go around the old card shark collection, soon fill their carts. Due to overwork, the sisters back home after the ill. Even so, the sisters or personally with herbal decoction soup to the villagers. The villagers illness soon recovered after taking the medicine. And they are under the care of parents and villagers soon recovered under the care of.
 
    To commemorate the merits of the sisters, folks will call that kind of herbal medicine of unknown "golden flower yinhua". Later, we will gradually put the "golden flower yinhua" referred to as "honeysuckle". 
 
 
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