Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (25), eucommia bark 
 
 
The original link: http://www.sanwen8.cn/subject/208881 
 
 
Eucommia ulmoides 

    Many years ago, dongting lake freight depend mainly on small wooden boat transportation, ship against pull due to shine bend bend against, so as to break down from constant overwork, they had nine times out of ten waist pain of persistent ailment. There was a young tracker, named eucommia bark, good-hearted, he wanted to find a medicine can relieve the sufferings of the tracker.
 
    In order to achieve that, he said goodbye to the parents, up the hill herbalism from home. Along the way he walked past the gurgling streams, also through the steep slope is fraught with risk. One day, he met an old herbalism on the hillside, so happy to go to visit, but old man doesn't even go back to the head. Eucommia ulmoides worried, only a 21 days away from home, mother ate rations have prepared, but still burden, so he and act quickly catch up with old man went to worship, and reveals the plight of the tracker.
 
    Old man was moved to tears, quickly took a piece from the medicine basket can cure hand eucommia bark, waist and knee pain, pointing to the opposite mountain of eucommia ulmoides told: "high mountains and steep, herb gathering should be careful when life!" Thanks repeatedly eucommia bark, the strange old man, along the way to climb mountain risk.
 
    Halfway, he met an old woodcutter again, an old woodcutter heard eucommia bark on the top of the mountain to herbalism, dissuade hastily: "must have your children, and the youngest son, the swan also flew over hard, ape for climbing, this to run......" Eucommia ulmoides bent on a companion to relieve pain, no shake, he climbed halfway up with hardships, only hear the crow sad cry, the female eagle to the eagle crowing sorrowfully, seemed to be advised the quick return. In the habitat of the bark of eucommia, was flustered, and hungry grumbles, suddenly a backward, back in the hills, luckily the body hanging on a limb. After a while, he came to his senses, find side of the tree, he needed so desperately. But, after all, exhausted, faint in the cliff, was finally landscape into ethereal dongting in eight hundred.
 
    Dongting lake of the tracker is to hear the news, immediately find, looking for many days, and finally in the dongting lake mountain woods found the body of eucommia bark, his hands clasped the also the bark of a bundle of acquisition, the tracker with tears, finished his acquisition of the bark, indeed, waist and knee pain all ready.
 
    In honor of eucommia bark, people from now on will officially named eucommia bark.