What are Hua Tuo's medical achievements?
Academic achievements Hua Tuo's medical skills are superb. He pioneered the use of general anesthesia for surgery and was later honored as the "originator of surgery". He is not only proficient in prescription science, but also admirable in acupuncture. Every time he uses moxibustion, as long as he takes one or two acupoints and moxibustion for seven or eight times, he will get well. When acupuncture is used, only one or two acupoints are used to tell the patient where the acupuncture sensation will reach. Then after the needle touched the place he said, the patient said, "Here we are." He pulled out the needle and recovered immediately. In addition, he created Jiaji point, "... dozens of points on the back, one inch or five inches apart ... moxibustion points clip the spine one inch up and down". If the pathogenic factors stagnate in the body and acupuncture and drugs cannot be directly realized, he will use surgery to get rid of the patient. The "Ma Fei San" he used was the earliest anesthetic in the history of the world. Hua tuo used "Ma Fei San" to perform abdominal surgery, which pioneered general anesthesia surgery. This kind of general anesthesia operation is unprecedented in the medical history of our country and rare in the medical history of the world. Hua tuo is good at feeling the pulse and can correctly judge the prognosis of the disease according to it. He also made an important contribution to medical sports, founded the famous Wuqinxi, and Hua Tuo was also good at applying psychotherapy to treat diseases. Hua tuo's medical skills are said to have all been burned out. However, his academic thoughts have not completely died out, especially Hua Tuo's research on traditional Chinese medicine. Except Ma Feisan and other famous prescriptions, all the prescriptions of Hua Tuo recorded in later medical books cannot be regarded as the name of Hua Tuo (Nie Wentao) in disguise. His disciple Upp is a famous pharmacist. Many contents of Upp Materia Medica can be found in later medical books.