One Hundred and Fifteen    Folk Remedy

In the 18th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, a visiting doctor went to Xianghe County, Zhili Province. The visiting doctor was named Dong Ming. I don’t know who is a man. He is old and knows his fate. He wears a knotweed scarf and wears a long robe. He is tall and dark, with a tall nose, straight eyes, and long beards. He calls himself a "people hand of folk remedies". He carries a medical banner and wanders around the streets and alleys every day. The eight characters "All diseases are cured, and the disease is cured" are embroidered on the medical banner. He rests on the roadside, closes his eyes to rest, and chants the words "Walking around in the rivers and lakes, helping all living beings, paying for money, and spreading his reputation without money." He recites it once and drinks a wine gourd, which is very leisurely.

One day in summer, Dong Ming was enjoying the coolness under the tree. A middle-aged girl arrived quickly and asked loudly, "Dr. Dong, please come to my house to see him quickly. My child was naughty and went to the room to get a sparrow. He accidentally entered the mouth of a centipede. He found that his abdominal pain was unbearable. Please help me to save my son quickly." Dong Ming heard this, quickly stood up and followed his daughter to his house.

When he arrived at the girl's house, the child had a great abdominal pain. He was covering his abdomen and rolling on the ground, crying and panting. Dong Ming saw it, he ordered the woman to take a lifetime egg, knock it into a bowl, and force the egg liquid into the child's abdomen. After a while, he ordered the woman to take half a pound of cooking oil and let the waiter drink it. After drinking it, the child felt nauseous and vomited in big mouth. Half a foot long centipede wrapped in egg white vomited out from the mouth. The centipede exited, and the child stopped crying and was at peace. Dong Ming asked the child, "Do you have abdominal pain?" The child shook his head and said

It was no longer painful. Dong Ming pointed his head and said, "You have recovered from illness. When you go to the room to pick up the birds in the future, you will hold a small wooden stick in your mouth, and it will be difficult for centipedes to enter your mouth." The child nodded and thanked him. The woman gave a great gift, and knelt and thanked him, "Thank you, Doctor Dong to save my son's life. My family is extremely poor. When the sir, he will take it if you see any valuable things in my family." Dong Ming smiled and waved his hand and said, "I have no medical supplies to avoid it. You just need to call my folk remedies and priests, and I will be satisfied." After saying that, he waved his hand and said goodbye, holding the banner.

Dong Ming left without collecting the documents. The middle-aged woman then went around her household to promote Dong Ming's medical ethics and called Dong Mingzhen a folk remedy master. This one spread to ten, ten spread to hundreds, spread to a wildlife. The name of folk remedy master spread throughout the city. People omitted the word folk remedy and called Dong Ming the saint master directly, and his reputation was very famous!

Dong Ming was famous for his saintly hand. Patients came to seek medical treatment one after another. Those who were poor at first were poor, and those who were rich later also sought it. Their treatment was different from others. One did not take medicine or the other did not pay for money. They all used folk remedies. After the disease was cured, the patients paid the money at will, so the poor could be avoided. How could such a doctor not be loved by the public? Those who were poor loved it, and those who were rich loved it. Who would not want to save money when seeking medical treatment?

There was a wealthy merchant surnamed Jiang in the city. His mother suffered from asthma. Every early spring, the asthma became more and more severe, like a bellows, and it was extremely painful. He was seeking a master of Xinglin for many years. He had not cured it for many years. He heard that Dong Ming had a folk remedy and asked him to do it. Dong Ming looked at his mother's temperament and ordered him to put half a pound of Schisandra chinensis into a clay pot, add water and boil it for half an hour. When the medicine juice was cooled, put thirty red-skinned eggs and marinate it. He placed it in a cool place for ten days, and took one egg every morning and evening to eat it. The wealthy merchant followed it and the old mother was half a month later. The stubborn illness was cured. The rich merchant was very happy and rewarded 100 taels of silver to thank him.

Dong Ming became famous and rented a house in the city. Unexpectedly, he was jealous of one person. Who is this? This man's surname is Wu and his name is De. He is a ward in the city. He is the inner brother of the magistrate of You County. He opened his own pharmacy and set up his own medical center. He took advantage of his brother-in-law's official position to support all medical businesses in the city. He issued a decree that all doctors in the city should hold medical cards issued by the county government, but he only issued Wu De, and the rest did not issue them. If there is no medical card, he will be dealt with as illegal medical practice. The mildest ones are fined, and the severe ones are imprisoned. Therefore, the doctors without medical card are forced to change their careers or go to another place.

Wu De took charge of medical business in the city, and the patient had no choice but to go to Wu De Medical Center to take a pulse and prescribe prescription, and then went to Wu De Pharmacy to buy medicine based on the prescription. Wu De only recognized money when he was diagnosed, and his medical expenses and drug prices rose at will. The poor had no money to stay in the door. Therefore, the people said angrily, "Wu De Pharmacy opened southward, and if he was sick, he had no money to stay in."

When Wu De was proud of his lack of a competitor, he suddenly came and prescribed folk remedies to cure the disease. He also voluntarily diagnosed the poor. The righteousness of the saint hand wanted to smash Wu De's job. How could he not be jealous? When he arrived at the county government office, he asked his brother-in-law to arrest the saint hand for the crime of no medical card and imprisonment. Although the magistrate of You County tried every means to protect his shortcomings, it was difficult to care for his shortcomings. You County Magistrate frowned and said, "I heard that this saint hand diagnosed his illness. One did not prescribe a prescription, and the other did not force the capital to collect funds. This is not a doctor. People use folk remedies to treat diseases. What reason do I have to do to arrest him? My brother, wait and see what changes and make a reason. When this person makes a mistake, it is not too late to arrest him again."

Wu De then sent his subordinates to secretly supervise the actions of the saint and wait for an opportunity to murder him.

After spring, the willows began to appear and rain continued. Wu De was secretly happy when he saw this weather. It was a metaphor for this dark climate. The boys were most likely to suffer from eczema. Like an infectious disease, the boys in the city suffered almost all of them. Many boys had to drink the boiled Xiaobian Decoction. This Xiaobian Decoction has been boiled for many years and is expensive. They make huge profits every year. Children with eczema are extremely itchy and ulcerated, and they become poisonous sores. Therefore, if they do not take this medicine, their lives will be destroyed. Even though the people in the city knew that Wu De took advantage of the situation, they had to buy it.

Seeing that the huge profit was coming again, Wu De ordered his men to make Xiaolan Tang quickly and wait for it. As expected, a boy in the city had eczema and was spreading. Wu De was secretly happy and expected that in less than a few days, the front door of his pharmacy would be crowded with people. Those who buy this medicine must flock to him and make a fortune!

However, half a month later, Wu De's pharmacy was cold and depressed, and no one came to buy this decoction. He was confused and sent his subordinates to investigate it. After the investigation, his subordinates reported that the children who suffered from eczema had been cured by the saint hand, and the saint hand was obliged to diagnose it. Wu De heard it and asked in a frustrated manner, "How can this visiting doctor cure eczema? Can folk prescriptions be cured?" His subordinates replied, "This visiting doctor ordered all households to make Liuye soup and use willow leaf water to bathe the children. After bathing, they all recovered. Without the patient, they would use bath to prevent it and do not suffer from eczema." Wu De was furious and said, "I have worked hard to prepare the Era Decoction, and I have lost dozens of silver in white. This account must be compensated! If this resentment is not repaid, it is useless to be a human being!"

Wu De used tricks to vent his hatred. He ordered a young man named Wang to eat a lot of crotons, and Wang's young man suddenly had diarrhea. When the young man's face was pale and weak, he took Wang's young man to the county yard to falsely accuse the doctor of the hospital, saying that Wang's young man had severe diarrhea after using willow leaf water. If he had not been treated in time, his life would be dead. He asked his brother-in-law to quickly arrest the saint. When the county magistrate saw someone evidence of physical evidence, he ordered the yamen runner to arrest the saint immediately for the crime of a quack doctor.

On the lobby of the county government office, the sage hand argued with reason. The magistrate of You County showed someone to witness Wang Shaoneng. The sage hand argued, "I have never treated this sage for this sage. This sage is not a disease of eczema. Moreover, bathing with willow leaf water and diarrhea is a matter of unrelated to cattle and horses. I smell the smell of croton and I will definitely eat croton." Wang Shaoneng heard this, fearing that the conspiracy would be exposed, and he dared not speak in panic. The magistrate of You County was shocked. How could this wandering doctor smell the scent of croton? Is it evil? He whispered to the official power and said, "The bold and quack doctor dared to speak nonsense and argue. When someone came, he would first reward his forty boards before he was guilty of the crime." He was about to draw a lot and ordered, but suddenly he heard that the people outside the yamen were full of noise and were extremely noisy.

When the people heard that the saint hand was arrested innocently, they were all angry, so they surrounded hundreds of people outside the yamen and shouted, "The saint hand is not a quack doctor!" "Framing is not a slut!" The magistrate You was furious when he heard this and ordered all the yamen runners to expel them. The yamen runners waved their whips to drive the people away. The people were angry and picked stones and fought back against them. People shouted and neighed, and the streets were in chaos.

At this moment, a gorgeous carriage arrived. There was a business owner sitting on the carriage, and there were several horse-riding guards next to him. Seeing this, he ordered the guard to investigate it. After checking, the guard reported that there was a wandering doctor who used folk remedies to treat diseases, known as the saint, offended the local medical tyrant Wu De, and was framed by Wu De. You County Magistrate arrested him for the crime of quack doctors. The people were unfair and became injustice for him. The boss heard it and said, "I heard that folk remedies were used to treat serious illnesses. This wandering doctor dared to be called the saint of folk remedies. There must be something extraordinary about it." So he ordered the car to stop and go into the yamen to investigate it.

The boss entered the county government office. The magistrate You County did not know who the boss was, and he dared to trespass the court. He was about to have an attack. The magistrate You County was shocked and knelt down and shouted long live. This boss is the current emperor! Wanli brought many guards to Beijing and Tianjin for private visits. Today, he went to Xianghe County government office and encountered the saint being tried. It happened that Wanli was a little sick and felt weak and had a weak spirit. He followed the imperial physician to diagnose him. After a long time, he heard that the doctor was being tried and called the saint of folk remedies and had cured many difficult and complicated diseases. So he asked the saint to diagnose him. If the illness was cured, he would be released without a crime. If the doctor was ineffective, he would be exiled to the frontier to exile him.

When the magistrate You saw this person kneeling down and shouted long live. Dong Mingming knew that this person was Emperor Wanli. Now that the emperor ordered him to treat his illness, he looked up carefully and frowned. He knelt on his mind and said, "The emperor's disease is not difficult to cure. You just need to mash it with fresh pork liver, then use Zhongnu's tears to regulate it. Take it for nine days, and the energy is abundant, and the body is weak will be cured." Wanli was very happy when he heard this, and quickly ordered the magistrate You to prepare it.

Not long after, several fresh pork livers arrived, but Zhongnu had nowhere to find tears, so he asked the saint where to find it? The saint said, "Zhongnu tears are the tears shed by loyal people of the saint. When the saint was sick and sad, she cried and got it. This tear medicine is very effective." In order to show his loyalty, Yu County Magistrate pleased the saint, quickly said, "This tears are not my official." As soon as this said, he was in the mind of the saint, so he raised his glass to ask for it. However, Yu County Magistrate squeezed his eyes hard.

After a long time, no drop fell, it was difficult. His mother died and did not shed tears. How could this be done? The saint made a plan and said, "If the lord does not shed tears and is unfaithful to the emperor, you can let his subordinates slap you in the face, and the tears will come out." The lord You County was helpless and ordered the lord to slap you in the face. However, the lord hesitated and raised his hand to dare not fall. The lord You County urged him, "You can slap you boldly. If you don't obey your order, I will slap you in the face and quickly."

The yamen runner had to obey the order, swung his arm and raised his hand and pulled it hard. He pulled it for a few more times. The county magistrate You burst into tears. The holy hand quickly took it with a cup, and then blew more than a hundred more times. The cup of tears flowed. The holy hand stopped and said, "It's enough now, I'll continue to pull it tomorrow." The county magistrate You covered his red cheeks with his hands, but he was anxious. You were willing to let it go. I'm miserable. Now I'll endure it. If the priest's illness does not cure, I will never let it go. I will punish him for your crime of deceiving the king.

The sage hand chanted a word in his mouth and adjusted the medicine. After Wanli took it, he felt relieved and was excited. He said, "This medicine is very good. I will live here first. When the illness is cured, it will not be too late to leave." The sage hand said, "I think that the tears of Zhongnu are not good, so I can replace it with Master You's relatives." Wanli asked, "Who can replace it?" The sage hand said, "The brother Wu De is a doctor, and you can replace it. The two of them exchange tears to help." Wanli pointed the head and called Wu De into the yamen to replace it.

When Wu De entered the yamen, he could not cry at will. He was the same as the magistrate of You County. He had to slap in the face before tears could come out. Therefore, his tears were used to change shifts with the magistrate of You County. Within a few days, the two of them had their faces swollen and the pain was extremely painful, and they could not sleep or eat.

After taking the medicine of the Holy Hand, Wanli was very energetic and couldn't use it all. He was overjoyed and wrote the four words "Folk Recipe" for Dong Ming to commend him. He also appointed Dong Ming as the imperial physician and returned to Beijing to wait for him. Dong Ming kowtowed and thanked him, saying, "The people of Cao were willing to go back to Beijing, but my subordinates lacked assistants for dispensing medicine. I consider You County Magistrate and Wu De to be competent. Please ask the emperor to approve it." Wanli frequently pointed his head and said, "Yes, let the two of you be your disciples and call them to use it at will."

The faces of the county magistrate and Wu Dezhi were swollen like pig's heads. They became disciples of saints. The two of them were angry and did they dare not to obey the words? Helplessly, they swallowed their anger and kowtowed to thank him. Dong Ming ordered the two of them, "I will go back to the clinic to prepare for it. You and you will also prepare for it. Let's set off tomorrow and return to Beijing with you. Don't be lazy!" The two of them promised to obey their orders.

Although the two followed the orders, they hated Dong Ming to the bones, gritted their teeth and wanted to get rid of them quickly. The two plotted to kill Dong Ming. At three o'clock in the evening, they ordered their subordinates to set fire to Dong Ming's clinic. The fire was fierce and devoured the clinic. At dawn, the fire was extinguished. The two went to the ruins of Dong Ming's clinic to investigate it, and wanted to pick Dong Ming's bones and tell the emperor that Dong Ming was accidentally caught fire and burned himself. The two looked at him, but they saw that Dong Ming was sleeping soundly on the ruins, without any damage! The two were shocked and realized that Dong Ming was not an ordinary person, but a god. The two knelt in panic and begged the holy hand to spare him.

Dong Ming told the emperor that the two of them were arsoned and committed a crime. Wanli was furious when he heard this and brought them to prison, waiting for trial. The next day, Wanli searched for Dong Ming again, searching all over the city, but he had not seen Dong Ming's whereabouts. He had long disappeared.

Wanli sighed, "Ah! The holy hand cures my disease, which is not something that folk remedies can do, but God helps it."
Chapter completed!