During the Cultural Revolution, when there was a hepatitis epidemic in mainland China, her mother came down with it, and the teenage Zeng saw her father mix the leaves of oriental arborvitae with gentian and other herbs to treat her mother.
那是在文革前，大陸各地肝炎大流行，曾燄的媽媽也染病了，十幾歲的曾燄眼見爸爸自己調配草藥方劑：側柏葉、天胡荽，加上龍膽草為媽媽治病。