a sToRy oF CInnaBaR
A story of cinnabar
In ancient China, most people were very superstitious.
They didn’t visit a doctor but went for a necromancer when
they were sick. At that time the doctors couldn’t treat mania
and withdrawal but the necromancer did. So, people preferred
the necromancer to doctor.
There lived a scholar who also was familiar with medicine.
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He thought carefully about the necromancer, “They just draw
magic figures and intoned chant. How can they treat disease?
There must be something in it.” So he had a plan with his
wife to find the secret of the necromancer.
One day, the scholar’s wife went for a necromancer and
told him that her husband had been caught mania.
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The necromancer went to the scholar’s house immediately.
With hair in disarray and face in dust, the scholar was
mentally deranged and crying out, “Aha, I’m from the heaven
to expel the evils for you ……”
Seeing that the scholar was mad, the necromancer lighted a
fire and was ready to expel evils. He placed a bowl of water
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on the table, took out a magic figures drawn beforehand, and
started to intone chant. After intoning chant, he was to light
the magic figures.
Just at the moment, the scholar jumped out of his bed suddenly
and kicked the necromancer out of the door. When the
necromancer got up from the ground, the door had been locked.
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He had to go back dejected.
The scholar took a mouthful of water, but it was tasteless
and was just pure water. He then picked up the magic figures.
It was a piece of paper with a figure. “Both of the water and
paper do not treat disease. Why?” The scholar looked at them
again and again. At last, he noticed that the figures had been
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drawn with the cinnabar. “Can it be that the cinnabar treats
the disease?”
The scholar took a patient with mania to his house the
second day and made him take the water with cinnabar in it.
Several days later, the patient was cured really. It was not
the necromancer who could treat mania by expelling the evils
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but the cinnabar did. So the cinnabar had been the medication
for treating mania since then.
The cinnabar has the actions of tranquilizing the mind and
clearing heat and toxins. It is applicable for infantile
convulsion and epilepsy, irritability and insomnia due to
exuberant heart-fire, and sore throat and canker sores of
mouth and tongue due to sthenic fire and heart-toxin., http://www.100md.com
In ancient China, most people were very superstitious.
They didn’t visit a doctor but went for a necromancer when
they were sick. At that time the doctors couldn’t treat mania
and withdrawal but the necromancer did. So, people preferred
the necromancer to doctor.
There lived a scholar who also was familiar with medicine.
, http://www.100md.com
He thought carefully about the necromancer, “They just draw
magic figures and intoned chant. How can they treat disease?
There must be something in it.” So he had a plan with his
wife to find the secret of the necromancer.
One day, the scholar’s wife went for a necromancer and
told him that her husband had been caught mania.
, 百拇医药
The necromancer went to the scholar’s house immediately.
With hair in disarray and face in dust, the scholar was
mentally deranged and crying out, “Aha, I’m from the heaven
to expel the evils for you ……”
Seeing that the scholar was mad, the necromancer lighted a
fire and was ready to expel evils. He placed a bowl of water
, http://www.100md.com
on the table, took out a magic figures drawn beforehand, and
started to intone chant. After intoning chant, he was to light
the magic figures.
Just at the moment, the scholar jumped out of his bed suddenly
and kicked the necromancer out of the door. When the
necromancer got up from the ground, the door had been locked.
, 百拇医药
He had to go back dejected.
The scholar took a mouthful of water, but it was tasteless
and was just pure water. He then picked up the magic figures.
It was a piece of paper with a figure. “Both of the water and
paper do not treat disease. Why?” The scholar looked at them
again and again. At last, he noticed that the figures had been
, 百拇医药
drawn with the cinnabar. “Can it be that the cinnabar treats
the disease?”
The scholar took a patient with mania to his house the
second day and made him take the water with cinnabar in it.
Several days later, the patient was cured really. It was not
the necromancer who could treat mania by expelling the evils
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but the cinnabar did. So the cinnabar had been the medication
for treating mania since then.
The cinnabar has the actions of tranquilizing the mind and
clearing heat and toxins. It is applicable for infantile
convulsion and epilepsy, irritability and insomnia due to
exuberant heart-fire, and sore throat and canker sores of
mouth and tongue due to sthenic fire and heart-toxin., http://www.100md.com