Divine Physician Hua Tuo Receiving Disciples Standards

When people praise the doctor for his medical skills, they will say that he is "Hua Tuo's rebirth".

Hua Tuo was a famous doctor at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he hung the pot to save the world, whether it was a high-ranking official or a poor people, he treated all the same people, maintained the benevolence of the healer, so he was loved and respected by the world. According to legend, when Hua Tuo was old, he wanted to find a closed disciple and pass on what he had learned in his life to his disciples.

The news that Hua Tuo was going to accept disciples spread out, and many young people came to visit. The first to come was a young man surnamed Zhang, who behaved very diligently, pouring water for Hua Tuo's tea, and was extremely attentive. On this day, Hua Tuo received an old man, who passed out. Hua Tuo gave the old man a needle, medicine has no effect, pry open the old man's mouth to see, it turned out that a mouthful of phlegm stuck in the throat, Hua Tuo saved people's hearts, on the mouth to mouth to suck out the phlegm, the old man coughed. I woke up. When the young man surnamed Zhang saw this scene, he only felt very disgusted and couldn't help but vomit. Hua Tuo saw his appearance, shook his head, and said: "If a healer saves people's lives, you can't be afraid of being dirty and tired, you can't learn medicine like this, or go back." The young man surnamed Zhang listened and had to leave in a gray and slippery manner.

The young man surnamed Zhang had just left, and another young man surnamed Wang came, and Hua Tuo intended to test him, so he led him to the home of a leg injury patient. The leg wound suffered from a snake bite, and pus was constantly flowing from his leg, and Hua Tuo instructed the young man to wash the pus. The young man surnamed Wang did not wrinkle his eyebrows at all, showed great patience, and quickly took care of the wound. Hua Tuo was very satisfied with him, so he asked him to pick some herbs to apply to the patient. After half a day, the young man returned, but with empty hands, he said to Hua Tuo, "Teacher, that mountain is really too high, I really don't dare to climb up!" Hua Tuo sighed and thought in his heart: Although this young man is not afraid of getting dirty and tired, his courage is very small! After a while, Hua Tuo found that this young man was really afraid of doing things, so he found an excuse to send him away.

Hua Tuo was very sad in his heart: Isn't there a young man who can be my apprentice? On this day, Hua Tuo went to see an old man, who was very poor in his family, and the misfortune was not alone, and he had abscesses on his head, and Hua Tuo said to him: "You can rest assured, I am free to see you for medical treatment, and I will not charge you a penny." The old man's son was very grateful to hear Hua Tuo say this, and immediately bowed his head to Hua Tuo three times. Hua Tuo helped the old man deal with the wound, but because he had no apprentice and was too busy to come, the old man's son used Hua Tuo as a helper to clean the pus on his father's head. Hua Tuo said, "Your father's illness requires seven herbs, and the herbs in my family are incomplete, so tomorrow I will go to the mountains to pick some." When the old man's son heard him say this, he secretly wrote down the names of the seven herbs, and that night he ran to the mountain to collect the herbs.

Early the next morning, the old man's son delivered the herbs to Hua Tuo's doorstep, and Hua Tuo was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth and said, "In that barren mountain and wild place, no one dares to go during the day, so you actually go to collect medicine at night?" The old man's son smiled and said, "There are no ghosts in this world, let alone not do bad things, not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, what is there to be afraid of!" Hua Tuo said, "Then how do you know these seven herbs?" The old man's son replied, "Yesterday I heard you say the name of the herb, I wrote it down, I have seen the plants on the back mountain, but I don't know what the name is, I can find it by looking at the medicinal materials." ”

Hua Tuo was very satisfied with this young man, so he tentatively asked him: "Your father is very talented, are you going to go to the army in the future?" The young man shook his head: "Now that the soldiers are in chaos, people are either vying to go to the battlefield as generals or as conspirators to seize the world, in short, they are all fighting and killing, which is really boring." When Hua Tuo heard him say this, he asked, "Then are you willing to be my apprentice and study medicine with me?" The young man listened, couldn't believe his ears, and replied busily: "There are so many people who want to be your apprentice, why did you choose me?" Hua Tuo said, "Because you are kind, brave, and grateful, you are the candidate for the apprentice in my heart!" The young man listened, and immediately knelt down to perform the worship service.

Hua Tuo did not look at the wrong person, this young man is serious about doing things, not afraid of hardship, and more importantly, he has a benevolent heart, Hua Tuo taught him all the medical skills. Later, this young man became a generation of famous doctors after Hua Tuo.