Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (37) -- selfheal 
 
 
selfheal 

    A scholar mother got scrofula, swollen neck redneck, dc also ichor. People say that it's hard to cure disease, show very anxious.
 
    One day, to sell a card shark. He said to the scholar: "the mountains have a herbal medicine, can cure the disease."
 
    The show just ask advice could help immediately. Therapists have picked up some purple flowers grass back, cut flowers, tisanes to show my mother to eat. A few days in the past, scholar mother discharging place the sealing; A few days passed, and all good. The old lady is very happy, and charged son leave a card shark live in the home, reward and hospitality practitioners. Practitioners also you're welcome, go out during the day herbalism, selling drugs, night night in scholar's home. Scholar and therapists often chat together, also have the interest to be slowly.
 
    After a year, practitioners to go back home, when he left to show just said: "I stayed with you for a year, how much to you for the meal?"
 
    Scholar said: "to my mother you cure the disease, eat a few meal?"
 
    Card shark said, "all right, that will pass to a medicine you!"
 
    Therapists say and whisks the scholar on the mountain. He pointed to a weeds of each oblong leaves and purple flowers to show just said: "this is cure scrofulous herbs, you recognize."
 
    The show just looked closely, said: "I understand."
 
    "You have to remember that the grass a summer is gone."
 
    "Well, I remember."
 
    Two people after breaking up when more than two months of the past. In late summer or early autumn of this year, but who's mother got scrofula, implementing a doctor. The show just heard about jie immediately after go to see a list of the county magistrate, said: "I'll herbalism scrofula." County thegovernment-sent followed scholar on the mountain, but how also can't find herbs long leaves and purple flower. The show just very strange: this is how to return a responsibility? He climbed the mountains nearby, did not find a tree. Sent show just back to county government, county officer that he is a liar, you can give classroom gave him fifty big plate.
 
    During the summer, card shark came back again. Show just grabbed card shark said: "you I good bitter!"
 
    A card shark stare blankly: "how?"
 
    "How do you teach me how to recognize the herbs have no?"
 
    "Yes."
 
    Where is it? "
 
    "Hill."
 
    Two people to the mountains, a look, there are purple ear weeds everywhere. Lots of strange ground to say: "how do you a result, the grass has."
 
    Therapists say: "didn't I tell you? It just after the summer grass of water, to use it is early."
 
    The scholar was suddenly remember card shark had confessed to his words, only themselves to blame carelessness, white got a bat. In order to remember it, just put the grass is called "self heal". 
 
 
 
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