Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (32) - chrysanthemum 
 
 
chrysanthemum

    Long ago, lived a grand canal called pig farmers. Pig's house is very poor, he was seven years old, they don't have a father mother textile. Pig baby widowed mother factor, life difficult, often cry, cry all eyes is broken. Pig grow to 13 years old, and he said to mother: "mother, your eye is bad, the future don't spinning weaving, day and night, I already grew up, I can feed you!"
 
    So he went to a rich man's home for small peasants, pain degree of both mother and son. Two years later, the mother's eye more and more serious, blind in both eyes was soon. Pig want to, the mother's eyes are blind to me, no matter how to also want to cure her eyes. He give the rich man work, from dawn forest vegetables, by selling vegetables in some money to my mother buy medicine doctor. Don't know how much medicine, the mother's eye disease is still not better.
 
    One night, however, pig had a dream, dream of a pretty girl to help him food, and told him: "along the canal to the west, in dozens of a smallpox swing, swing in a plant white chrysanthemum, can treat eye disease. On the ninth day of the ninth month in the flower to the double ninth festival to open, then you use the flower decoct soup for your mother to eat, can cure her eye". The double ninth festival that day, pig brought food to find chrysanthemum morifolium smallpox.
 
    It was a wild swings with weeds, called day of wild swings. Where is he looking for a long time, often only, is not see white chrysanthemum, have been found in the afternoon, only a small mound in the grass swing in the grass beside find one white chrysanthemum indicum. This plant grow white chrysanthemum is very special, a terrier nine branch, at present only a flower, the rest of the eight flower in bud. White chrysanthemum pig will this plant roots with soil dug back, moving in their own house. Water by his care, soon also gradually zhankai eight flower, sweet and nice. So he plucked a white chrysanthemum decoct soup every day to take to the mother. After finished seventh chrysanthemums, pig mother's eyes began to see.
 
    White chrysanthemum can treat eye disease news spread out quickly, murakami people came to watch the unusual wild chrysanthemum flower. The news also spread to the rich man there. The rich man will call to pig and ordered him to the white chrysanthemum transplanting to the changs in the garden.
 
    Pig, of course not. A rich man to get strong pig house rob has sent a few men that strains of chrysanthemum morifolium, because the two sides, the chrysanthemum be broken, they and roared off. White chrysanthemum pig saw this plant for the mother cure eye diseases by violence, very sad, is sitting beside the broken chrysanthemum cry until dark, until the middle of the night still refused to leave. He hazy tears eyes suddenly, after the middle of the night, the last dream of the beautiful girl suddenly come to his side. Girl persuaded him to say: "pig, you have the good result of filial piety, don't be sad, go back to sleep!"
 
    Pig said: "the chrysanthemum saved my loved ones, it is death, called how do I live?"
 
    Girl said: "although the chrysanthemum stalks was broken, but also in, she didn't die, as long as you dig out the root and transplanted into another, chrysanthemum morifolium out."
 
    Pig asks: "girl, who you are, please let us know, I want to thank you."
 
    Girl said: "I am the chrysanthemum fairy of heaven, come to help you, don't need to return, as long as you do as a" kind of chrysanthemum rumours, chamomile, will live." Then chrysanthemum fairy read aloud a way: "three points four flat, water spray head may, June to jilt head, seven or eight wu pier head, rolling a ball in September." Read out of his sight. 
 
 
 
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