Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (42) - money grass 
 
 
Money grass 

    Once upon a time, there lived a young couple, two people I love, and you life's happiness. Who wants to change, one day, the husband suddenly under the rib pain, like a knife stab needles generally, how many days before, was a dramatic is killing me. Cried her eyes out at the wife, the doctor found out why her husband was dead. The doctor according to the parts of the disease, a ritualistic, found that (there) is a small stone in gallbladder.
 
    Wife take the stone, sadly said: "this stone, after breaking up we love husband and wife, really hurt the person is very bitter!"
 
    She used red and green silk thread woven a small string bag, put the stone inside, hung on the neck down, regardless of work during the day, or you go to sleep at night, all don't take it down. In this way, has been for many years.
 
    One year autumn, she went up into the mountain to cut grass, cut a large bundle of, hold down the hill. When she got home, suddenly found hanging in his chest that stone has went to half. She is very strange. People told him. Later, it was a doctor heard, will seek to say to her: "you cut the grass that day, there is a kind of herbs can be stone. You bring me up the hill to find that kind of grass."
 
    The next day, with a doctor, she came to cut the grass slope, but the grass is cut out. The doctor turned around this piece of land on the branches, when mark going to say next year.
 
    Fall in the second year, the doctor with women up the hill again, put the piece of cut down the grass of the earth, and let the women to go home. Is not this, stone doesn't change, this time also followed as hard before.
 
    The doctor did not lose heart.
 
    In the third year, he and the woman up the hill again, cut down the hillside fragment grass, separated by type first, then, to put the stone successively in each test on the grass. As a result, finally found a kind of grass can change the stone.
 
    The doctor said happily: "this is, cholelithiasis save."
 
    Since then, the doctor just up the hill to collect this kind of herbs, special treatment of cholelithiasis, the effect is very good.
 
    Because the grass leaves are round, like money; And it can open the stone in gallbladder, all say it is also valuable than money, so the doctors call it "money grass". Later, also some people call it "fossil Dan. 
 
 
 
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