The story of the miracle doctor Hua Tuo, the originator of surgery

The story of the miracle doctor Hua Tuo

The famous miracle doctor Hua Tuo during the Three Kingdoms period, as a boy I once studied medicine with a doctor named Cai. He is smart and diligent, and is highly appreciated by his master. One day, the master called Hua Tuo to him and said, "You have been studying for a year. You have known a lot of medicinal herbs and some of their properties. From now on, you can learn to make medicine from your senior brother!"

Hua Tuo came to the medicine shop happily, but his senior brothers bullied him for being young and honest. You used the scale and I used it, but they didn't let Hua Tuo get his hands on it. Hua Tuo thought that if he told his master about this, his brothers would definitely be blamed; but if he didn't tell him, how could he learn to take the medicine? Hua Tuo thought about it for several days and finally came up with a good idea. Whenever the brothers weighed and packaged the medicine, he would always look at the quantity billed by the master, weigh the medicine package with his hands, and silently remember it in his mind, and then secretly weigh the weighed medicine package with a scale when he had free time. , check it out. As time goes by, the skills on my hands become more and more proficient. One time, the master asked Hua Tuo to grab medicine. When he saw that Hua Tuo didn't use a scale and just wrapped it up after grabbing it, he suddenly became angry and said sternly: "Do you know? Taking medicine is a matter of life and death. You just grab it casually like this. Isn't it a joke about people's lives?" Hua Tuo smiled and said, "Master, I can't be wrong. If you don't believe me, just weigh it." The master took the medicines from Hua Tuo's bag and weighed them one by one, but he was not prescribing them for himself. The weight was exactly right! He wrote a new prescription and asked Hua Tuo to take a few more doses, but the result was still accurate. The master was very surprised and asked repeatedly how Hua Tuo developed his good skills. Hua Tuo saw that he couldn't hide it, so he had to tell the truth. After hearing this, the master said excitedly: "The one who can inherit my medical skills must be Hua Tuo!"

The story of Hua Tuo's three trials of wormwood

According to legend, there was a man with jaundice. The man (jaundice), with a turquoise complexion, sunken eyes, and extreme weight loss, came to Hua Tuo and said, "Sir, please treat me." Hua Tuo frowned and shook his head and said, "The doctors haven't found a cure yet. There is nothing I can do about treating jaundice!"

Half a year later, Hua Tuo met the patient again and found that he had become very healthy, strong and rosy. Hua Tuo was shocked and asked hurriedly: "Which doctor cured your disease? Tell me quickly and let me learn from him." The man replied: "I didn't ask a doctor to see you. The disease was cured by myself." "Hua Tuo didn't believe it: "How could such a thing happen? You must have taken some medicine?" "I haven't taken any medicine, but because there was no food in the spring, I ate some weeds." "That's right! Grass. It's just medicine. How many days have you taken it?" "More than a month." "What kind of grass are you eating?" They walked to the hillside, and the man pointed to a piece of green weeds and said, "That's it." Hua Tuo took a look. It was Artemisia annua, so I picked some and gave it to other jaundice patients to try, but I tried several times but it had no effect. Hua Tuo asked the man again how many months of artemisia he had eaten, and the patient said that it was in March. Hua Tuo realized that in spring, all kinds of grass sprouted in March, and perhaps Artemisia vulgaris had medicinal power in March.

In the spring of the second year, Hua Tuo picked a lot of Artemisia annua in March and gave it to patients with jaundice. As expected, every one was better. In order to find out the medicinal properties of Artemisia annua, Hua Tuo classified the roots, stems and leaves in the third year and found that only the young stems and leaves can be used as medicine to treat diseases, and named it "Yinchen".

Hua Tuo also compiled a song for future generations to learn from: "The artemisia in March and the artemisia in April should be passed down to future generations to remember. The artemisia in March cures yellow tuberculosis, and the artemisia in April is used as firewood."

The Death of Hua Tuo, a Genius Doctor of a Generation

Cao Cao, the Prime Minister of the State of Wei, had been suffering from headaches. A sudden attack, the pain was unbearable. So, they sent someone to call Hua Tuo for treatment overnight. After Hua Tuo looked and smelled him and diagnosed him, he told Cao Cao: The cause of his headache was in the brain. He should drink Ma Fei Decoction first, then use a sharp knife to open his head and remove the root cause of the disease, "wind saliva". It is possible to cure it. After hearing this, Cao Cao thought that Hua Tuo wanted to frame him. He was furious and ordered his soldiers to capture him and put him in a cage.

Afterwards, he was tortured and questioned continuously, and a generation of famous doctors died unjustly in prison. From the perspective of non-medical people, Hua Tuo's death may just be a pity. As for Hua Tuo himself, I think he must have been very painful in his heart before he died. This kind of pain may only be understood by doctors. The people in the government talked to Cao Yi.

Character introduction

Hua Tuo (about 145-208) was a ziyuanhua, a native of Peiguoqiao (now Qiaocheng District, Bozhou City, Anhui Province), a medical scientist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the leader of Hua Tuo's life. In the era of warlord chaos, floods and droughts, and epidemics, people's lives were very difficult. Hua Tuo hated the feudal tyrants who committed many evil deeds and sympathized with the oppressed and exploited working people. For this reason, he did not want to be an official. He would rather hold the golden hoop and run around to relieve the people's suffering. Not seeking fame or wealth, Hua Tuo was able to concentrate on the research of medicine. People called him a "miraculous doctor". He once compiled his rich medical experience into a medical work called "Qing Sang Jing", but unfortunately it has been lost now. In addition, the "Wu Qin Xi" he created is also a traditional fitness method in my country. There is an error in the year of Hua Tuo's death. He died in 208, but who scraped Guan Yu's bones to heal his injuries in 220. Cao Cao suffered from a headache and died in 220 and was imprisoned. . [1] Died in 208 AD at the age of sixty-three.