Hua Tuo, the character of Yuanhua, is a native of Peiguo County. www.biquge.info Hua Tuo was one of the famous doctors in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and even in the entire history of China, he had comprehensive medical skills, especially good at surgery, and was good at surgery. He is also proficient in internal medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, and acupuncture. In his later years, he was tortured to death because he offended Cao Cao.

【Medical Career】

Earlier, Pei Guo Minister Chen Qi recommended Hua Tuo to be filial piety, and Taiwei Huang Wan recruited him as an official, but he did not go. It is said that Hua Tuo is proficient in the art of health preservation. At the time, it was thought that he was close to 100 years old, but he was still very good-looking. He is also proficient in all kinds of prescriptions, and when treating diseases, he only needs to dispense a few kinds of medicines. I am also very familiar with the dosage, and I can get it as soon as I grab it, and I don't have to weigh it again. Cook and drink, explain the precautions, and the patient will feel much better after taking the medicine. If you need moxibustion, you can only burn one or two acupuncture points, and each place is only seven or eight times, and the disease will be cured. If you need a needle, it is only one or two places, and when you put down the needle, say, "The feeling of numbness after the needle should be transmitted to a certain part of the body, if so, please say." The patient said, "It has arrived." Hua Tuo immediately pulled out the needle, and the illness was cured immediately. If there is a tumor in the abdomen, acupuncture and drugs cannot be treated, and surgery is necessary, he will ask the patient to drink numbness and boil it first, and soon the patient will be anesthetized, so he will use a knife to cut the abdomen. If there is something wrong with the intestines, the intestines will be cut and cleaned, and then the plaster will be applied, and the wound will be sewn up, and the patient will not feel any pain at all, and he will be cured in about a month.

The government officials Er Xun and Li Yan went to Hua Tuo to see a doctor together, both of them had headaches, fevers, and the same symptoms. Hua Tuo said: "Erxun should be guided, and Li Yan should sweat." "Some people wonder why the two have different laws. Hua Tuo said: "Erxun is external heat, and Li Yan is internal heat, so the treatment methods are different. He then prescribed different medicines to them, and the next day they were both cured.

Xu Yi said to Hua Tuo: "Yesterday, I asked the medical officer Liu Rent to pierce the middle navel acupoint, and after piercing it, he coughed quite badly and couldn't lie down. Hua Tuo said: "He failed to pierce the navel point and accidentally injured the middle liver." You'll get less food day by day, and after five days you'll be hopeless. Later, it was really as Hua Tuo said.

The little boy in Chen Shushan, Dongyang County, became ill when he was two years old, with diarrhea and crying, and he was emaciated and weak day by day. asked Hua Tuo for diagnosis, Hua Tuo said: "When his mother was pregnant with him, the yang energy was nourished in the body, and the milk was cold and weak. This child has a mother's cold, so it is not easy to get better. Hua Tuo prescribed four Nuwan pills, and the disease was cured in ten days.

Mrs. Peng Cheng went to the toilet at night and was bitten by a poisonous insect, and the pain was so bad that she couldn't sleep. Hua Tuo asked her to put her hands in warm water, which could finally make her fall asleep, and others repeatedly changed the water for her to keep the water warm, and the swelling disappeared the next day.

Hua Tuo was walking on the road and saw a person who couldn't swallow something he ate. Know that there is something wrong with the esophagus. His family was pulling him to the doctor. Hua Tuo heard the moaning, stopped to visit, and said to the patient's family: "The people who sell cakes on the road ahead have vinegar and garlic foam, buy three liters and drink it, and the illness will be cured." The patient's family did as Hua Tuo said, and immediately a snake (a parasite) spat out of the patient's mouth. They hung it on the side of the car and wanted to visit Hua Tuo. Hua Tuo has not returned. The children were playing in front of the door, and when they saw the visitors, they said to each other, "The patient with the snake hanging next to the car thinks he has met our father-in-law." The patient came into the house and sat down, and saw a dozen of these snakes hanging on the north wall of Hua Tuo.

Another county guard was sick, and Hua Tuo thought that this person had to be angry to get sick, so he accepted many gifts from him, but did not treat him, and soon left him away, and at the same time left a letter scolding the county guard. This county guard was really furious and sent someone to kill Hua Tuo. The son of the county guard knew the reason for this, and ordered his men not to chase after him. The county guard was so angry that he vomited a few liters of black blood, and then he was cured.

There are many examples of Hua Tuo's rescue, so I won't list them all. However, although Hua Tuo was skilled in medicine, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the status of the medical profession was not high, and Hua Tuo himself regretted practicing medicine as a profession.

【Five Fowl Opera】

Wu Pu in Guangling County and Fan Adu in Pengcheng County followed Hua Tuo to study medicine. Wu Pu followed Hua Tuo's method to treat the disease, and the effect was very good. Hua Tuo said to Wu Pu: "The human body needs to be constantly moving, but it must not be excessive. When the human body moves, the nutrients in the food can be digested, and the blood flow is smooth, so there is no disease, just like the door is always open and open, and the door pivot does not rot. Therefore, the long-lived people in ancient times used the method of guidance to fit out, imitating the action of a bear climbing a branch hanging. Imitate the look of the owl in retrospect. Traction of the limbs allows the joints to move and maintain youth. I have a set of health preservation techniques, called the play of five birds, one is called tiger, two is called deer, three is called bear, four is called ape, and five is called bird, which can also get rid of diseases and make the movements agile. If you feel unwell, you can do a bird play, the whole body will sweat slightly, and then apply powder, the body will feel light, and the appetite will be greatly increased. Wu Pu practiced hard and lived to be ninety years old, with bright ears and eyes, and complete and firm teeth. Fan A is good at needle pricking. Anyone who knows the way of medicine says that the back and chest can not be indiscriminately needled, even if the needle is only four points, and Fan A's back can be one or two inches deeper, and the Ren meridian acupoint along the belly button along the abdominal line to the xiphoid process can also be needled five or six inches, and the patient can be cured. Fan Ah asked Hua Tuo for a healthy recipe that could be eaten, and Hua Tuo gave him a piece of lacquer leaf green sticky. One liter of lacquer leaves, fourteen taels of green sticky, said that insisting on taking it can remove three kinds of internal parasites, which is beneficial to the five organs, making the body light and healthy, and the hair black. Fan A listened to Hua Tuo's words and lived for more than 100 years.

【Hua Tuo's Death】

Later, Cao Cao personally dealt with national affairs, got seriously ill, and let Hua Tuo diagnose and treat him. Hua Tuo said: "This disease cannot be cured in a short period of time, it should be treated for a long time and can prolong life." "Hua Tuo has been away from his hometown for a long time. Homesick, so he said, "I just got a letter from home and want to go home to see it." After returning home, under the pretext that his wife was seriously ill, he asked for leave several times and did not want to come back. Cao Cao wrote letters repeatedly and sent officials to urge, but Hua Tuo still did not go on the road, he felt that he had expertise, and he hated being servants. Cao Cao was furious, and sent someone to visit, and if Hua Tuo's wife was indeed sick, he would give Xiaodou forty hundreds, and relax the holiday; If Hua Tuo lies, arrest him. As a result, Hua Tuo was imprisoned and made to confess. Xun Yu interceded for Hua Tuo and said: "Hua Tuo has a unique skill and can save people's lives, so he should be tolerated." Cao Cao said, "Don't be afraid." Could it be like Hua Tuo's generation, will there be no one in the world? He tortured Hua Tuo to death. When Hua Tuo was dying, he took out a book and handed it to the prison guard, saying, "This book teaches you how to save the living." "The jailer was afraid of being implicated and did not dare to accept it. Hua Tuo was not reluctant, and burned the book with a fire.

After Hua Tuo's death, Cao Cao's headache could not be removed. Cao Cao said, "Only Hua Tuo can cure my illness." That kid wanted to exalt himself with the opportunity to heal me. Even if I don't kill him, he won't remove the root of my disease. Later, his beloved son Cangshu was seriously ill, and Cao Cao lamented: "I regret killing Hua Tuo, and as a result, my son also died." ”

In history, Hua Tuo died of Cao Cao's desire to control, originally Hua Tuo had no problem treating others, but Zhou Tai did not say that Hua Tuo would be detained after Hua Tuo's medical treatment, but it was not good to Cao Cao, Cao Cao saw Hua Tuo's medical skills, so he took him as his personal doctor, and served Hua Tuo, at that time Hua Tuo was also older, and he did not want to be controlled, so he returned to his hometown, and was unwilling to return to Cao Cao's side, and finally offended Cao Cao, although Xun Yu interceded for him, but Cao Cao did not think that there was only one Hua Tuo in the world, So Hua Tuo finally failed to escape.

【Medical Contribution】

Historically, Hua Tuo is unique, and his contribution to ancient Chinese medicine is very important.

Hua Tuo is the first expert in Chinese history to clearly record the surgical practice, and the first pioneer and founder in the world to invent the anesthetic "Ma Boiling San" and the invention of acupuncture and moxibustion to treat diseases. "Ma Boiling San" has opened up a new research field for the development and development of surgical medicine.

Hua Tuo once compiled his rich medical experience into a medical work, called "The Green Capsule Sutra", but unfortunately it was not handed down in later generations, which is more or less related to Cao Cao.

ps: In history, Hua Tuo did not record that he had given Guan Yu medical treatment, but had treated Zhou Tai, the general of Eastern Wu, and Hua Tuo had been killed by Cao Cao long before the Battle of Xiangfan. This is the end of the chapter of the generals, and now we will enter the chapter of the princes.