Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (24), gentiana scabra bge 
 
 
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Gentiana scabra bge 

    Dayang mountain had a poor boy named Ceng Tong village, long for the rich man's cattle. Day, Ceng Tong petunia up the hill and see the mountain plateau in the pond there is a beauty in the bath, were hiding in the Chai Cong looking around. After a while, the beauty of the shower, go to shore, suddenly become a serpent, dish in men shout to sleep, mouth also spit out a pearl, shining. Ceng Tong bold, stepped forward, quietly pick up to play on the side. It is a science of uniting the already a long time, can change shape of the snake god. The bead is snake Dan.
 
    Snake god wake up and see the snake Dan lost heart panic, quickly becoming a "old ceruminous guest", while looking for it. Old saw Ceng Tong ceruminous guest, ask: "cattle brother, do you see there's a bead fall to the ground?" Ceng Tong Dan, out of the bag to touch the snake hands get back to her.
 
    Old ceruminous guest see Ceng Tong honest, ask a way: "kid, what's your name? Do you have a family?" "I call Ceng Tong, parents early death, only I a person at home." "Son, if you are willing to, just do foster mother worship me, to my home, I eat for you, for you to wear, practice kung fu, also teach you to read?" Ceng Tong see snake god no malicious, just nodded, with a snake god go.
 
    From then on, made a snake Ceng Tong niang adopted son, a lived three years in the abode of fairies and immortals. This day, it is Ceng Tong 16th birthday, snake niang said to Ceng Tong: "you have grown up, can go to work. Now the opportunity to have an official, the emperor of the prince became seriously ill and no one can cure. You go to cure him, would be 'white horse riding, senior officials do!'" "I will not see a doctor." "It doesn't matter, as the niang belly in bile, drilling to get you a little, insurance can be cured." Snake niang said to Ceng Tong a needle and a little empty bottles with powder, reveal the serpent on horse, fell on the ground, open-mouthed. Ceng Tong suitable shekou down the snake belly, touch the snake gall, needle lift a thorn, pick up a few drops of bile, emerged again.
 
    Snake niang to Ceng Tong packed up, again to send Ceng Tong to outside. When parting, snake niang to Ceng Tong said: "there is difficult after you find niang, as long as 30 tertiary cliff climb ladder, knock three times, niang will to open the door." Ceng Tong down and walked all the way.
 
    Ceng Tong came to Beijing, revealed the emperor list, with snake bile to cure the disease of the prince. Emperor flow his young, parents and left him with prince studying kung fu, also gives the former phase, when the prince to reign in the future thanks again for the prime minister.
 
    A year later, the emperor should also gave birth to with the prince and the princess of the disease. The emperor called phase, said: "if your can cure the princess, I will hire you for xu."
 
    Ceng Tong thought of parting when snake niang commanded, night back to ocean mountain, climbed up the cliff ladder, count to 30 level 3 when stop, knocked on three, shek mun open immediately. Girl meet, particularly glad.
 
    Snake niang had known that, and give him a needle and an empty bottle, also said: "you this take bile into the belly, can only use a needle to prick, not quantity!"
 
    Once down the snake belly, thorn, the bile, just thought: the bile is so spirit that just take a little more. Niang niang, you also don't be stingy, let son take more! Such a thought, and held up his hand, dart some shots in a row. Closes the serpent bear pain, mouth and stomach a shrink, made some roll, fainted. Once phase, were dead, too.
 
    Snake niang pain, feel sick, they shoveled vomit up. The bile to vomit on the grass, became a "snake gall grass".
 
    Greedy snake niang complain once, of the princess became very ill, and into the old ceruminous, picked grass snake gall, during which to say once phase sudden death, the niang son generation hospital, get the trust of the yellow emperor. Snake niang let princess dress grass snake gall, the princess is also good.
 
    The emperor at that time the happy, asked the name of the herbs. The emperor didn't catch snake gall grass, said: "good gentiana scabra bge, gentiana scabra bge is good!" The emperor is "singing",
 
    "Snake gall grass" has become "gentiana scabra bge.
 
    While speaking, old ceruminous guest has disappeared.
 
    Later generations according to the legend, in the top of the mountain built a "snake" temple, the temple engraved with a couplet:
 
    Flat return bead snake god niang heart, heart stab greedy bile snake niang swallowing phase.