Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (40) - perrin, ageratum 
 
 
Perrin, ageratum 

    Once upon a time, there was a family, my brother joined the army in the outside, period of only two people in the home, sister-in-law called perrin, sister-in-law called burner. Perrin cherished sister, burner and thoughtful sister-in-law. Two people changed to do farm work together every day, and housework together. They never make time at odds, don't mention how life and beauty.
 
    One summer, sister-in-law misfortune in the heat, only feel headache and dizziness, palpitations, nausea. Burner quickly helped sister-in-law into the bed, said: "brother teaches we met at home, two kinds of prompting fashionistas antipyretic herbs, let me dig some back up the hill, decoct soup to drink to you!"
 
    "That can not!" Perrin took my sister's hand. "You 17, 8 girls, how can a person out of the question?"
 
    Treating sister-in-law burner a thought, no matter how sister-in-law persuasion, or changed into his brother's old clothes, disguised as men, and went to the mountains.
 
    Perrin lest sister have what mishap, eyes riveted on a door, always hoped to big dark to see sister, a shadow. Perrin just breath a sigh of relief, the but again suddenly stunned. See an eyes straight hair, limb weakness, a move barriers fell to the ground. Perrin flounder, busy bed to burner: "sister ah, this is what's the matter with you?"
 
    An weakly said: "my name is snake."
 
    Sister-in-law frighten the lost soul, nasty asked: "bite?"
 
    "Here..." Said burner with pointed to the feet.
 
    Perrin quickly stripped off burner footwear, saw younger sister's feet and red and swollen, even lower leg swelling to coarsen.
 
    "Ouch, that also please, to put the poison out into ah."
 
    "Even late."
 
    Perrin learns that the little sister of the injured leg up, and put his mouth close to his foot wound, suck the poison.
 
    Sister-in-law, you also want to poisoning! "In an cried and shoving sister-in-law.
 
    Perrin hang on to younger sister's ankle, said: "to death we die together, to live we live together. No sister, I a person live a what do you mean?"
 
    The next day, the neighbors found this period both lying on the ground, hastened to rescue. But, in an already dead, perrin only take the last breath. Perrin took out two strains from the side of the small basket herbs, cried and said, "folks ah, my sister dig back this grass, is our family heirloom down heat cure, can still hasn't been a name. This round leaf thick stems, prompting fashionistas wet, treatment of headache, fever, abdominal distension, bosom frowsty, still can anti-nausea, antidiarrheal, please call" burner "; this leaves thin stems, attending the wet heat resistance, dizziness, vomiting, is called 'perrin'......"
 
    Words not to say that finish, also swallow also perrin.
 
    The neighbors were moved. You buried period of two people, two kinds of prompting fashionistas herbs grow up. From then on, people see a burner and perrin this two kinds of herbs, recalled that a period of strong feelings. 
 
 
 
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