Ok, here's the 1st story before I go to bed.
Once, there was an emperor in China who invited a TCM physician
to help him to cure his sickness. This physician was well know for
his skill in TCM and his ability to cure even the dying 起死回生(Qi si
hui sheng). After curing the emperor, the emperor asked the
physician who taught him the skill in TCM. The physician replied
that it was his father who taught him the skill.
Then the emperor asked if he was the only one taught by his
father, he replied that his father taught him and his 2 elder
brothers the skill. The emperor than asked why he was so famous
while his brothers were virtually unknown and whether his father
taught him the secret but not to his brothers.
To which he replied that the father taught them the same thing
and that the best among them was his elder brother followed by his
second brother. He was the worst among them. The emperor was
puzzled and asked why his brothers were unknown if they were indeed
better than him.
He told the emperor that his elder brother could diagnose the
illness before it arise by just feeling the pulse therefore was
able to prevent the illness from arising by medication. So no one
fall sick under his care.
His second brother able to cure the illness with medication when
the it arises thus he too was able to cure all his patients
under his care. Only those who had not met his brothers and had his
illness full blown and almost dying that comes to him for
treatment. Thus he was famous because of that.
Moral of the story: Prevention is better than cure.
