Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (48) -- datura flower 
 
 
Datura flower 

    Drunk xiantao is Chinese traditional medicine "tendril sudra" (aka "datura flower") of seeds. As for why call drunk xiantao? One should have a very interesting story. 
 

    Once upon a time, there lived an emperor. One day, the emperor sit top points in the mirage. The first is a very beautiful boy. The emperor saw just love, don't want to put the princess to marry him. In that year, who dare not to follow imperial edict? Top though my heart is not willing to, but have to marry the princess. However, after marriage for several days, he hid the princess, also usually wear clothes to sleep every night. The princess is very strange, and ran to her mother - before the empress v. wronged. The emperor Ming emperor and empress quickly, bring about the in waits, asked: "why don't you know xu happy?" 
 
    Those in waits, dumbfounded. How do they know? In front of the emperor and were afraid to guess hu. 
 
    The emperor was angry: "you who have the means to make xu strip sleep?" 
 
    In waits more't reply. At this moment, there is a old in waits knelt down to play: 
 
    "Little people, there is a way to, can let xu strip off to sleep." 
 
    "Quick say?" 
 
    "Please long live in the palace for the emperor's banquet, allowed to creep in the turtles." 
 
    "Ok." 
 
    That night, the palace feasting, xu eat wine, please. Old in waits quietly in the wine into the "mandala" at the end of the seed of fine son. Xu where know, eat several cup in a row. 
 
    Night, the palace meal also. After xu also palace, it attacks. He is in a state of consciousness is not clear, took off his clothes to sleep. The princess was found, the original xu is a woman, she was afraid to show true colors, so refused to undress. 
 
    Woke up at daybreak, the efficacy of dissipation, xu. She know secrets revealed, she knelt in front of the princess, spoke of their origin. 
 
    It turns out that she is a very wise woman. Her husband is sick, and when the exam is near, very worried. Her husband with her husband's name instead of the highest. Behold, all of a sudden have exceeded otherregions scholar, the emperor yet will do xu... Just make a joke. 
 
    The princess played Ming emperor, the marriage only. 
 
    Later, the emperor asked in waits: 
 
    "You are with what medicine?" 
 
    Dare not say in waits. Because the people only know the mandala is toxic, is for external use only cure rheumatism, beriberi and disease; Only in the old shi know it blindly anesthetics, if the truth, the emperor would question the poison the heart of xu in waits. So, he replied: 
 
    "I usually drink wine with the medicine. The medicine is called 'tipsy xiantao.'" 
 
    "Drunken xiantao" is a very beautiful name, the emperor was not investigated. The name of the medicine is handed down from then on. 
 
 
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