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.
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There lived a scholar who also was familiar with medicine. 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.
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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 ……”
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Seeing that the scholar was mad, the necromancer lighted a fire and was ready to expel evils. He placed a bowl of water 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. He had to go back dejected.
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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 drawn with the cinnabar. “Can it be that the cinnabar treats the disease?”
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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 but the cinnabar did. So the cinnabar had been the medication for treating mania since then.
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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.
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