Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (38) - the mulberry parasitism 
 
 
Mulberry parasitism 

    Once upon a time, there lived a rich man's son suffered from rheumatism, waist and knee pain, difficulty moving. For several years, he collapsed on the bed, the doctor can't cure.
 
    The rich man heard of nanshan a herbalist, let herbalist gave his son to send medicine to heal. Due to nanshan twenty miles away, so, the rich man was assigned a little long, every two days to take a medicine. But, herbalist in several herbs in a row, the rich man's son doesn't work.
 
    This year the snow in the winter, up to a few days and nights. Little long time to take medicine, have to in more than one foot deep in the snow walking four miles back and forth.
 
    One day is too cold, small long and thin clothing, he was trembling with cold. As the saying goes: "holding bowl, with people tube"; Take not to return to, is not a job.
 
    Small long standing outside the village along while, suddenly see an empty of old mulberry tree hole, grow some tree branches. He think: this is not very like the rich man's son take the medicine? Anyway, he eat what also not good, give him this point back to the top medicine ok. So he climbed to the tree, pursed a twig. And then, he secretly run to a friend's home, cut the branches in section, with a paper bag. Small long warm for a while there, and people do some chores, estimated time almost came back to the rich man's house.
 
    The rich man also don't know what's in the paper, let a person like him to fry to his son to drink. After the rich man, of small peasants at cheat as "party" catch "medicine", every two days curled a mulberry thin stick on the back.
 
    Winter passed and spring snow. The rich man's son, incredibly well.
 
    Nanshan after herbalist heard strange: "a winter didn't take medicine, he eat what good?"
 
    Herbalist'd like recognizing to the medicine, to find a rich man. He just went to the rich man's door is met little long. Small long fear herbalist see the rich man after, oneself will discover, must have beaten, hurriedly before and after speaking out, and said: "uncle, you don't tell the rich man!"
 
    Herbalist say with smile: "that good, but you have to tell me, what is given to his son to eat." 
 
    "Branches."
 
    "What tree branches?"
 
    "Old mulberry is the village head tree!"
 
    "Heard of mulberry branch can zhitan disease! Take me to see you go."
 
    Small with a herbalist came to the village. Herbalist tree on a see, originally in the hollow of the old mulberry, with a Ye Zixiang locust tree. He picked some down, said: "I'll try and see what happens."
 
    Medicine farm this sub branches a try, if cure for rheumatism. Later, people born in ramulus mori because this kind of tree branches, give it a name - "the mulberry parasitism". 
 
 
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