Dr. Hua Tuo has three contributions. Hua Tuo ( 華 Tuo ) was a native of Peiguo County ( 沛国谯县 ; present-day Haozhou , Anhui ) , and was a fellow villager with Cao Cao. A famous medical scientist at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Proficient in internal, external, gynecological, pediatric, acupuncture and moxibustion, especially good at surgery, invented the "hemp boiling scatter" to assist in surgical operations, by posterity known as "surgical holy hand" and "surgical originator". Hua Tuo was suspected by Cao Cao and was tortured to death in prison.
The "Later Han Dynasty Book of Hua Tuo Biography" and "Three Kingdoms Zhi Hua Tuo Biography" are all comprehensive records. Hua Tuo's achievements are manifested in three aspects, proficient in medical skills, called a divine doctor, and left many legendary stories. Invented the world's earliest anesthetic, "Hemp Boiling Dispersion", for surgery. The earliest sports health exercises, five poultry plays, prolong life.
Statue of Hua Tuo
After decades of practicing medicine, Hua Tuo has learned the medical knowledge of his predecessors, skillfully mastered the treatment methods such as health maintenance, prescription medicine, acupuncture and surgery, and is proficient in internal, external, gynecological and pediatric departments, and is known as a "divine doctor".
Hua Tuo invented Hemp Boiling Powder, setting a precedent for anesthetic drugs in the world. Records of general anesthesia surgery in Europe and the United States began in the early eighteenth century, more than 1,600 years after Hua Tuo. The History of World Pharmacy points out that the use of anesthetics by arabs may have been transmitted from China, because the famous Chinese doctor Hua Tuo was the most proficient in this technique.
Hua Tuo is adjusting Chinese medicine
Hua Tuo pioneered the use of general anesthesia to perform surgical procedures, and was respected by later generations as the "originator of surgery". The anesthetic was successfully tried, and he prepared the anesthetic and hot wine, so that the patient took it, lost consciousness, and then opened the abdominal cavity, cut the ulcer, washed the decay, sutured with mulberry skin thread, applied the ointment, removed the pain in four or five days, and recovered in January. Therefore, Hua Tuo gave it a name.
Hua Tuo was one of the founders of ancient Chinese medical sports. Especially advocate the way of health. Hua Tuo inherited and developed the prevention theory of the predecessor "saints do not cure their own diseases, cure diseases before they are sick", and arranged a set of fitness exercises and "five birds play" that imitate the postures of five kinds of animals and animals such as apes, deer, bears, and tigers.
Hua Tuo's Five Birds Play
The name of the divine physician Hua Tuo has been passed down through the generations. Unfortunately, Hua Tuo's medical theories and medical works have been lost, and future generations have compiled medical theoretical knowledge about Hua Tuo from other aspects. Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing were divine doctors at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Hua Tuo's medical knowledge came from Zhang Zhongjing. The divine doctor Hua Tuo, as well as hua Tuo's living sayings, made Hua Tuo a divine doctor, and his good name was passed down through the ages.
The Description and Record of Hua Tuo in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms played a huge role and influence. Through the storytelling artists and opera singing, the fame of Hua Tuo Divine Doctor has become even greater. There are three parts to the description of Hua Tuo in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one is to treat the Eastern Wu general Zhou Tai, and the other is to cross the river to cure the poison of Guan Gong's bones. The third was to treat Cao Cao's illness, but he was questioned and sent to prison to death.
Hua Tuo scraped the bones of Guan Gong to cure the poison
Among them, Guan Gong scraped the bones to cure poison, which is based on other stories, and is the most legendary and heroic. When Guan Gong was injured, Hua Tuo had already died, and it was impossible to heal Guan Gong's injuries. However, Hua Tuo scraped the bones of Guan Gong to cure the poison, on the one hand, it explained Hua Tuo's superb surgical operation, on the other hand, Guan Gong talked and laughed, calmly, and the image of a big hero jumped out, and his story was the most classic and the most long-standing.
The treatment of Zhou Tai and Cao Cao is recorded in history. In addition, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms also portrays some of Hua Tuo's legendary stories of curing diseases, adding to the brilliance of the divine doctor.
Divine Doctor 华佗Image
Huatuo Shenyi reflects that the level of development of Traditional Chinese medicine in the Eastern Han Dynasty has been very high, becoming one of the few Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in ancient China, and the valuable medical experience and spirit that are popular have made great contributions to the development of medicine in later generations and have a high influence.