Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story before (46) - white 
 
 
Before the white 

    One year, hua tuo in henan to practice medicine. 
 
    One day, he went to a village named baijiazhuang coal, is to catch up with the pouring rain, hua tuo couldn't hurry lived in the village open inn, the owner of a name is white. That night HuaTuoGang sleep till midnight was awakened by a child's cry, listen closely, the child still cough. Hua tuo jerked up, wake up inn boss, said: 
 
    "This is a young child crying?" 
 
    "Behind the shop that a child is live." The shopkeeper said. 
 
    Hua said: "oh, the child is ill, I'm afraid to live to noon tomorrow!" 
 
    Boss is not happy: "you this guest how to charm others child died?" 
 
    Hua said: "I am a doctor, and recognized the voice of the cough wrong." 
 
    The shopkeeper a listen to, he is a doctor, was dropped drum to knock the other side, bow and scrape hurriedly, smiled and said, "you quickly to solve it for you. The child for several days, blame poor." 
 
    "You show me." 
 
    Shopkeeper led hua tuo behind shop, knock on a door, say: 
 
    "This is doctor, children come to you." 
 
    The family quickly hua tuo came into the room, please. Hua tuo saw a doctor the child's face, listen to the voice of cough, and sat down to cut vein, then say: 
 
    "To save the child's life, need a kind of herbs. If found, immediately eat in time, the child will be able to save the day." 
 
    The father of the child hard ground to say: "eat what medicine, where to find?" 
 
    Hua said: "you point a light, I'll go see." 
 
    "Oh, how good your trouble? And it was raining heavily outside!" 
 
    "Don't say more, the doctors, quickly go!" 
 
    The rain, the greater the mud on the ground, and slippery and hard to go. 
 
    The father of the child lanterns in the former, hua tuo looking for back and forth in the village; East west find find, however, he wants to find herbs nowhere at all. It was not until in the end, a small county in front of the inn on the slope of found. Hua tuo dig it back, cut off the root, wash clean, let a person tisanes drink to the child; Put the herbs of leaves to stay, say again: 
 
    "What do you do with this appearance, dig out some to the morning after, let the children eat more a few agent, grubbing disease. This is the medicine of the cough, eliminating phlegm!" 
 
    "Well, you don't worry. You busy night, please go back to sleep." 
 
    People urged kind of hua tuo go to rest, didn't ask this herb name. The next day, the father of disease for the gifts, thank the doctor came to the inn. And behold, the boss told him: 
 
    "The doctor went away light." 
 
    "Oh, I haven't properly thanked him! Don't ask somebody else's name." 
 
    "You know who he is?" 
 
    "Who?" 
 
    "Hua tuo. 
 
    "Oh, no wonder be so high, heart so good, and is a living immortal." 
 
    Disease is the father of the child according to hua tuo leave the leaves, and dug back some herbs decoction to give children drink, before long, the child's all good. Baijiazhuang coal, then can know the taste of cough herbs; However, just don't know its name. Then, everyone thought: the first time this herb is in Bai Laoban dig a door, will give it a name, called "white" before. 
 
 
 
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