Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (28) -- ginkgo 
 
 
Ginkgo biloba l. 

    Long ago, the well-known bijia mountain there lived two families, gingko nuts, red bean, innocent playmates, close as brother and sister, often play together. Ginkgo 10 years old, mother contracted endemic diseases, endemic disease, no matter how to take medicine, can only live for one year. The legend of the kunlun mountains a medicine fruit to cure the endemic diseases. Because the road is tough to herbalism people usually have no get it back. Ginkgo's father who view risks, going to the kunlun mountains herbalism for his wife, just suffer from ginkgo with disease wife no one care. Red bean family know, busy to neighbors see patients, to discuss herbalism. Red bean's father said: "I go herbalism." Ginkgo dad doesn't agree. Red bean's mother said: "the fireworks neighbors, what you and I? Say fish to water, water is personhood duty to help the fish." Over the past six months, red beans dad herbalism to return. Wait and wait, a year later, herb gathering of people did not appear. Ginkgo mother can't wait to be ill. Red bean's father never won't come back, because when you climb the cliff on the way herbalism fell dead. Lost father lost mother gingko nuts, red bean, two families together, waiting for many years, only slowly pull away from the grief of losing loved ones, occasionally in ShanChong echoed the laughter of the two families. But it is the unforeseen, red beans, when he was eighteen, mother also got a damn endemic diseases. Doctor prayer is invalid, red bean decide to kunlun mountains looking for medicine fruit, my mother to the ginkgo care. Herbalism road, red bean through the wringer, finally arrived at the kunlun mountains. Red bean of the filial piety touched by the god, the god handed red bean fruit one pill said: "this is the spirit of heaven and earth root knot, the cat was not leak. This fruit can only eat for your mother, others eat, you will immediately become the dumb beasts. Remember! Remember!" The medicine fruit, red bean to ke mountain several XiangTou. Mother's illness has been already saved, ecstatic, hardships driving back day and night.
 
    Words in two head and said, since red bean from home, ginkgo serving red bean's mother, like daughter. The tea drinks, shit down urine. Red bean's mother very much obliged to ginkgo said: "children, don't worry about me, will there be infectious." Ginkgo said: "my mother died early, is your hand touch my big, than mother also kiss you, in the world which he doth not quote?"
 
    Soon, ginkgo had contracted endemic diseases. Red bean, came back home he put the medicine fruit to mother mouth to feed. His mother can't tear gas to ask: "picked fruit have some medicine?" When my mother learned that only one pill fruit, ready to take medicine with open mouth shut again. Mother looked at the gingko nuts, red bean, fondly, make up your mind in your heart, gently said to ginkgo: "go to the field call your dad come back, I have something to say to him."
 
    Off the ginkgo, mother said to the red bean, "ginkgo serve I contracted this damn of endemic disease, she was younger, medicine fruit will give her something to eat, mom old, the body can't." Ormosia knelt before her mother's bed, crying and said: "after you eat, mom, I again tomorrow to kunlun mountains for ginkgo herb gathering." Mother side with trembling hand for my son wipe the tears, said: "remember mother, children, the person must think of others more. Well, to put the medicine on the head of a bed, will mother to eat again, now I want to go to the toilet, come to help you go call gingko nuts." Red bean, according to the commandment of the mother. Mother don't want to see anything happened to ginkgo, son don't want to go to kunlun mountains adventure. Only take decisive measures, ginkgo fruit eat doped, son, don't go to the kunlun mountains. Gingko nuts, red bean, both ran home, mother with their belts have hanged herself in the head of a bed frame. Burying her mom, red bean gave the medicine fruit gingko nuts. Gingko nuts for a reason, to swallow the medicine fruit, to, one hundred times spirit. For when she was about to thank red bean, but see red bean soon became a little bigger than a cat than a dog of shiny black animal. This animal is what people came as white pahmi mountain. Gingko nuts from EZhong woke up, I see everything, crying: "red bean elder brother ah, your father is my mother herbalism died on the way to the kunlun mountains, in order to make your mother medicine hanged himself to me, you in order to cure my illness and turned into animals. Oh my god, how should I to do?"
 
    Ginkgo to calm down, she wants to blame all this that damned endemic diseases. Local disease family ruined countless people. Since this medicine can cure endemic diseases, why not let it take root in their hometown? Did not completely solve the endemic to the pain of the villagers? Except that medicine I've swallowed, so I wouldn't let it spoil, only to die quickly. How to do? Red bean my brother to my mother and I are going to pay the life, why can't I for the hometown people to get rid of endemic diseases torture to die! So leave a suicide note, working really hard on himself.
 
    According to the requirements of the ginkgo suicide note, need not quickly bury her coffin loose soil at the foot of the mountain. Quickly buried ginkgo long out of the tree seedlings. Trees grow up later, bear fruit is the bane of endemic diseases, folks picking is convenient, no longer suffer from endemic diseases.
 
    To commemorate the gingko girl, fruit called ginkgo folks take this medicine. Gingko nuts, red bean, for others turned into animals and plants, but they are still human nature. White pahmi attachment maidenhair tree, all the year round guard around the maidenhair tree. Maidenhair tree never forget their own tragic origin, the green flower, flower of the tears, is the elder brother of the red bean and those who sacrifice for others people mourn forever.
 
    Ginkgo biloba is toxic, unfavorable eat more. 
 
 
 
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