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 disease condition was not improved but deteriorated.
In late autumn, a Taoist priest passed by and recommended himself that he could treat the imperial concubine. So Tang Xuangzong invited the Taoist priest himself.
After examining the pulse of Yang Yuhuan, the Taoist priest found that the pulse had been deep, replete and slippery, and there had been thick and slimy tongue fur on the tongue, which was the syndrome of retention of food at the middle stomach due to spleen-stomach vacuity and dietary irregularities. But the herbs used by the imperial doctors were enriching and slimy in properties, which acted in a diametrically opposite way.
So, he prescribed ten crataegus and 15 g of malt sugar for her and then swaggered off.
Tang Xuanzong half believed and half doubted him. But the imperial concubine's disease was cured unexpectedly after taking the medicine for half a month.
The crataegus was sweet and sour in taste, and warm in property. It has the actions of dispersing food accumulations, dissipating blood stasis, expelling tapeworm, and decreasing blood-lipid and activating blood. It is indicative for food accumulation of meat-type, dysentery, lumbago, hernia, and intestinal wind, especially for postpartum persistent flow of lochia, infantile feeding accumulation and hyperlipemia.
1、唐代唐玄宗的宠妃杨玉环，脘腹胀满，大便泄泻，不思饮食。
2、唐玄宗为此坐卧不安。
3、御医盈庭，名贵药品用尽，贵妃的病不但没有好转，反而加重。
4、深秋，一道士化缘路过皇宫，自荐能为贵妃治病。唐玄宗亲自屈驾前往。
5、道士牵线拿脉，贵妃脉象沉实而滑；视舌，舌上布满厚腻舌苔。道士思忖道：此乃脾胃柔弱，饮食不慎，积滞中脘，御医所用之药，滋补腻滞，实反其道也。
6、于是，挥毫写出：“棠球子十枚，红糖15克，熬汁饭前饭用，每日三次。”然后扬长而去。
7、唐玄宗将信将疑，谁知用药半月之后，贵妃的病果真痊愈。
8、棠球子，就是今日所说的山楂。其味甘酸，性微温，有消食积，散瘀血，驱绦虫，降脂活血之功效。主治肉食积滞、痢疾、腰痛、疝气、肠风。对产后恶露不尽，小儿乳食停滞以及高血脂等效果尤佳。
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