The story of Sun Simiao and the old crane grass

There is a cave next to the Niuxin Temple in Mount Emei called the Zhenren Cave. Legend has it that during the Sui and Tang dynasties, the famous medical scientist Sun Simiao once practiced dan medicine in this cave to treat people's diseases. Mount Emei is verdant and turquoise everywhere, only around this cave, the rocks are broken, and there is no grass. People say that this is because Sun Simiao was practicing Dan in the cave and fumigating hot gas.

Sun Simiao's medical skills are very skilled. He was able to break the disease like a god and come back to life, so people called him "Sun Zhenren". He made a vow to travel everywhere to collect medicines and cure diseases for the people of the world. And he collected his years of experience in treating diseases and wrote it in his medical book "A Thousand Golden Fangs".

This year, he came to Mothb Mountain. See the mountains and green waters, tourists come and go. He thought, the climate of this Momei Mountain is humid and rainy, changeable, there are so many people on the mountain, it is inevitable that there will be no sores and diseases, why don't I stay here for a longer time and treat people. So he lived in a cave next to niuxin temple, refining dan and medicine, and treating the people. One day, he was in the middle of the cave when he suddenly heard the sound of someone moaning outside the cave. Sun Simiao hurried out of the cave to take a look, and saw a middle-aged man in his forties, sitting on the ground, his face was sallow, his legs were red and swollen like a bucket, and it was difficult to walk.

Sun Simiao asked him, "What illness have you had that you are calling here?"

The man said, "My family lives by the Hu River, and since childhood I have been fishing for a living, I often go from water to water, and I have suffered from rheumatism for many years. Whenever the weather is wet, the whole body is painful, the legs are red and swollen, and it is not easy to bend, and it is very inconvenient to walk. In recent years, seeking medical treatment and taking medicine everywhere has not worked. I heard that there was a famous doctor named Sun Simiao from Momei Mountain, so I walked hundreds of miles to Mothmei Mountain to seek medical treatment from Mr. Sun. I don't want to go here, because the climate on the mountain is wet and wet, plus long-distance fatigue, this rheumatism will attack at once. ”

Sun Simiao hurriedly helped him into the cave, carefully diagnosed, and found that the man's rheumatism was very serious. He had never treated such a serious rheumatism before, and he hesitated in his heart, whether he could be treated or not? Doctor, what medicine should be used to cure it? If you don't heal, this man's feet will look crippled.

At this time, he thought, since I have vowed to treat the people of the world, I cannot retreat from difficulties, and moreover, my medical skills have slowly become wiser in the process of constantly treating people, and now that there are still diseases that I cannot cure, it means that my medical skills must continue to improve in order to relieve the pain of more people. So he went up the mountain and collected all the medicines he knew could cure rheumatism and treat people, but they still didn't have much effect.

On this day, he took the medicine hoe again, carried the basket on his back, went up the mountain to find medicine, and was still thinking about how to cure rheumatism for the man: suddenly he saw an old stork pecking at the weeds on the mountain rock, he was very strange, and he thought in his heart: The old stork inhabits the river all year round, feeding on fish and shrimp, why did he fly to the mountain rock to peck at the wild grass. So he crept closer and saw that the old stork pecked at only one weed, and the rest did not eat.

He suddenly remembered: I heard people say that many birds and beasts who are sick go to the mountains to find medicine to eat, is it not that the old stork is also sick and looking for medicine to eat on the mountain? He also thought that the old stork has been looking for food in the water for many years, and it is most susceptible to rheumatism, is this grass able to cure rheumatism? Thinking of this, he hurriedly pulled some of the grass that the old stork pecked at and brought it back, boiled it into a medicinal juice with water, and took some of it himself to try. After drinking it, I feel that my body is full of veins and veins, and my muscles and bones are stretched more.

So he gave the man the potion. It's really strange to be afraid of drug prescriptions. The man took the first pair of medicines to stop the pain, took the second pair of medicines to swell and disappear, and took five pairs of medicines in a row, and he could walk on the ground. The man took Sun Simiao's hand with great gratitude and said, "Mr. Sun, you have cured me of rheumatism that I have not cured for many years, so that I can walk again, how can I thank you?" Sun Simiao said, "You don't have to thank me." When you go back, when you see people with rheumatism, tell them all to come to me for healing. The man happily bid farewell to Sun Simiao and went home.

Since then, Sun Simiao has used this herb to cure several rheumatism patients in a row. Since this grass was first found by the old crane, he gave it a name called "old stork grass", and the ointment made of this grass was called "old crane paste".

The news that Sun Simiao used the old stork grass on Mount Emei to cure rheumatism spread ten or ten hundred times, and soon spread throughout the area around Moth Mei Mountain. Many people in the vicinity came to Momei Mountain to ask Sun Simiao to cure rheumatism. Sun Simiao used old stork cream to cure many people's diseases.