There was a famous general named Ma Wu in Han Dynasty.
There had been a drought in summer one year and no crops could survive. It happened that Ma Wu’s army was defeated and had to retreat to the wilds.
Food supplies were few and it was even difficult to find wellspring. Many soldiers and war-horses died [...]
Yang Yuhuan, the most favorable imperial concubine of Tang Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, once suffered from distention and fullness of the stomach duct and abdomen, diarrhea, and poor appetite.
So, Tang Xuanzong felt uneasy whether sitting or bedding.
Though all the imperial doctors had treated her and many rare medicinal herbs had been used, the [...]
Holy Farmer (Shen Long) was the celestial being of medicine in folk legend. His great exploits of saving people from diseases were greatly praised by the people through the ages.
Once there lived a scholar called Mao Song who was honest and kind. Though he had studied The Four Books (The Great Learning, The Doctrine [...]
It was said that Xi Shi, one of the four most beautiful women in ancient China, suddenly felt pain in the throat when she sang the Falling Leaves of Phoenix Tree. It was difficult to drink.
So she took large amount of heat-clearing and fire-purging drugs. The symptoms were relieved after taking the drugs but reoccurred [...]
A long time ago, there was a young boy called Zhang Xiao’er. He once suffered from bleeding. Blood flowed out of his mouth and nose and there was blood in his stools. Though he had visited various doctors, it was not cured. It seemed that he was on the verge of death. One day, [...]
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. He thought [...]
Qin Juren once suffered from rhinorrhea with turbid discharge. It smells terrible and is disgusting. Even his wife and children disliked him. Although he had visited many doctors and had taken a lot of drugs, it didn’t work. He was hopelessness and prepared for death.
One of his friend stop him and said, “Why not [...]
Once upon a time, two skillful writers went to the capital to have the imperial examination in summer. They hurried on with their journey for fear that they would miss the examination. So they were weak because of tiredness.
One day, they entered the desolate desert. There was no inn at all. They were both [...]
This story happened in a village of the south of the Changjiang River. There was just one herbal medicine shop in the village, so the storekeeper sought exorbitant profits by taking advantage of the favorable geographical position for that whoever was ill in the village had to take the drugs of his shop.
Once a [...]
In the ancient China, the various states were locked in a tangled fight. A small state was defeated by a big state. Only several thousand of the soldiers survived and retreated into the mountain.
As there were no foods supplies in the mountain, the big state thought that small one would surrender sooner on later
One [...]
