Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (51) - yam 
 
 

yam 

    During the warring states period, the nations. Have a power to a weak beat, weak left thousands of people, escaped into a mountain. Strong army surrounded by the mountain, want to each other have died. Weak men trapped in the mountains, no one outside for food, it can't send out to raise grain - power thought, they will shape of surrender sooner or later. Who want to like this for a year, the mountains there is not even a little action. Power of the officers and soldiers thought the mountain people starved to death. 
 
    Suddenly in one night, however, from the mountain in a team of people strong, straight to the powers rushed to camp. 
 
    Power a year without fighting, and think that the weak team already dead, so people can not afford time to armour, too late for a saddle horse, killed a unprepared. The weak defeat, the lost and regained all the land. 
 
    After the power failure is very strange, so it went around snooping weak army is when food for anything in the mountains. Later learned that, in the mountains to the original director of the white a summer leaves here, it's very thick roots. The weak soldiers hungry, just dig the root to eat, eat a smell very sweet. From then on, people eat roots, and the horse eat leaves - thousands of people live on it for a year. The weak soldiers gave it a name, called "mountain". Mean, trouble is lack of food, had it happened to be in the mountains. 
 
    Later, people found that the "mountain" can not only AIDS people, like food and spleen and stomach, lung, kidney, attending pixu (spleen deficient), such as diarrhea disease. 
 
    Later, people use it as medicine, the "mountain" to "yam". 
 
 
 
The original link: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6383a68a0102ee88.html