Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) the story (55) -- Cnidium monnieri 
 
 
Cnidium monnieri 

    A village popular a kind of strange disease, the patient of sweat pores long goose bumps, itch gadites kept scratching, and is sometimes confused catch was bloodied itchy. This disease still spread quickly, and don't reveal the patient's clothes, the patient's bed will be infected with the disease, is a patient when scratching fly broken pipi fell on the good of the skin, the good will be sick. A few days later, the village people were infected, eat what medicine, with what medicine is weak. Later, a doctor said: "a island in hundreds of miles away, I heard that the island has a sample with feathers leaves, like flowers open umbrella herbs, bathe in it the seed of boil water, can cure the disease. However, who also have no way to pick it, because the island is full of poisonous snakes." 
 
    You guys, have to sigh. 
 
    Have a young heart a horizontal, dry food on their backs, the boat out to sea. But he walked for a long time, also didn't come back. 
 
    Then there was a young man went to the island. But after he left the village, also promoted the tidings. 
 
    The two men probably all feed snakes, therefore, people all off to snake island herbalism. However, Yang was a, I can bear, scratch scratching, some people catch broken skin exposed bone; Some people the wound from festering, became DaChuang. See everyone in suffer from this kind of strange disease, in the third year of youth to bite heterodox: "I must put the medicine taken back!" 
 
    Old people advised him to say: "ok, make body itch brimming with, going to snake island can be dead!" 
 
    Youth said: "the period, I not letter can't overcome snakes!" 
 
    He left the village, but did not go to the island, he first searched for a cure snake expert. 
 
    One day, the young man came to a mountain by the sea, the mountains have a nunnery to live in a one hundred - year - old buddhist nun. Legend, people are old nun dispensed to the snake island take the snake gall when she was younger. Youth will find nunnery, ask old nun with snake island can work it out. Although old nun said: "snake evil, they fear of the realgar wine. You in the Dragon Boat Festival this day noon on the island, saw the snake he sprinkles realgar wine, viper smelling the realgar wine will avoid you." 
 
    Young man thanked the old nun, bring the realgar wine at sea. He put the boat dropped anchor near the snake island and shore until noon when the Dragon Boat Festival. See everywhere snakes on the island, piebold, with gold rings, there are only a few feet long, also have wankou thick. Youth side walk side sown with realgar wine, snake a smell realgar wine, indeed all plate of living. He hurried from the body of snake, dug many feather sample as flower of grass leaves, an umbrella. 
 
    The young, finally come back alive. He found not only with realgar wine a good way to uniform viper, also gather folks back herbs to cure disease. He put the seeds of herbs decoction into water, let a person to take a bath in the village. People washed several times, all good. 
 
    Later, everyone put this grass planting in the village, with it to treat tinea scabies, eczema medicine. Because of this herb as early as from the body of snake under dig, so call it "snake" bed, its seeds is called "common cnidium fruit". 
 
 
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