In the classic literary masterpiece "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there are many famous classic bridges, and Guan Yunchang scraped bones to cure poison is one of them. However, just when we were impressed by Guan Yu's superhuman heroism that collapsed in front of him without changing the color, some people also proposed that there was someone else who scraped Guan Yu's bones to cure the poison. Is it really not Hua Tuo who scraped Guan Yu's bones to cure poison? Or is there someone else?
The fragment of Guan Yu scraping poison and healing poison is from the seventy-fifth time in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. After Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army, captured in the forbidden area, and beheaded Pound, he was wounded by Cao Ren's crossbowmen while attacking Fancheng. Not only was the arrow hit in the right arm, but more seriously, the arrow was poisoned. Moreover, when the divine doctor Hua Tuo arrived, the poison had already entered the bone. Therefore, Hua Tuo proposed and carried out the surgical operation of cutting Guan Yu's wound, scraping the poison from the bone, cleaning it and then suturing it. After the operation, "the public laughed and said that the crowd knew: This arm is stretched out as it was, and there is no pain." Sir true god doctor also! ”
The operation was a success, but some people objected to such a wonderful bridge. First of all, from today's medical point of view, surgery touched the bone, not to mention that there was no complete disinfection conditions at that time, as far as the operation itself, there was no anesthesia, and the average person was likely to have only one result, that is, pain and death. Well, our Guan Yu is a god and is not afraid of pain. However, such surgery is still likely to occur due to a large amount of blood loss, which causes many complications such as shock.
Even if the surgery is successful, recovery from the postoperative infection is still a difficult problem that cannot be underestimated. Importantly, combined with various records, we find that the time of Guan Yu's arrow was in 219 AD. Unfortunately, the divine physician Hua Tuo was executed by Cao Cao as early as 11 years ago, that is, in 208 AD, for treating Cao Cao's illness. Therefore, don't say scraping the bone to cure the poison, that is, let Hua Tuo give Guan Yu a pulse, it is simply impossible.
The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu Biography" records as follows: Yu tasted the flow of arrows, through his left arm, although the wound healed, every time it rained, the bones were often painful, the doctor said: "The arrow is poisonous, poisoned into the bone, when the broken arm is wounded, scraped the bone to remove the poison, and then this disease is removed from the ear." Yu Ben stretched out his arm and ordered the doctor to split it. Shi Yushi asked the generals to eat oppositely, the blood in their arms flowed away, and they were on the plate, while Yu Cut and introduced the wine, smiling freely. Although it is recorded that Guan Yu did scrape bones to heal his wounds, there was no mention of Hua Tuo, and the doctor was only a military doctor accompanying the army.