Here, it is emphasized that what Hua Tuo gave to the jailer in history was not the Qingnangshu, but the medical experience and other medical skills he recorded.

Qingnangshu is a knowledge about five elements, divination and astronomy compiled by Guo Pu in Jin Dynasty. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is just a historical novel. In order to increase the magical color of Hua Tuo, Luo Guanzhong put the book of clearing the capsule in for later use.

Back to the topic, we know that Hua Tuo is the "originator of surgery". Although he is also proficient in internal medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, acupuncture and so on. He is better at surgery. If the manuscript is preserved, it should record the medical skills of surgery and other disciplines.

But if the manuscript is preserved, is it really useful to future generations? I personally don't think so.

Hua tuo won the title of "the originator of surgery" for himself because of laparotomy. This surgical history book is slightly recorded, but after careful consideration, I think that unless Hua Tuo is now a doctor who travels through the past, his medical skills cannot exceed his current surgical knowledge and human structure. We know that the understanding of the internal structure of human body in the history of traditional Chinese medicine is very rough. Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to looking, smelling, asking and cutting, but ancient medical skills rarely study the internal structure of human body, and they know nothing about local anatomy.

Then the problem is coming. Before Hua Tuo, there was no medical book to record how to do surgery, so Hua Tuo was the originator and the first person who dared to open the abdomen. Does he know the distribution of blood vessels and nerves after abdominal incision? He knows which organs can move and which can't. Traditional Chinese medicine before him could not answer these questions. Does Hua Tuo know the function and distribution of these organs? Apart from these, Hua tuo cut open his intestines and cleaned them, which involved sterilization. What did he use to clean it? Well water or alcohol? You should know that disinfectant is one of the key technologies in surgery. This achievement is not inferior to Ma Feisan's invention and how Hua Tuo solved it.

Nowadays, surgeons need a strict division of labor, such as the chief surgeon, the second assistant, the nurse and the anesthesiologist, to perform laparotomy. Hua tuo seems to have done it alone. Is he a fairy? According to today's medicine, it is impossible for Hua Tuo to perform laparotomy, so that it is even more unrealistic to prepare Cao Cao for craniotomy later.

Therefore, personally, Hua Tuo's surgical skills, even if preserved, will not have any great influence on our Chinese medicine.

However, there is no doubt that "Leprosy Powder" invented by Hua Tuo is very important for alleviating the postoperative pain of patients. Therefore, I think that if Huatuo's manuscript had not been burned, the formula of "Leprosy Powder" in it would make our Chinese medicine ahead of western medicine in anesthesia for many years.

Hua tuo also developed a set of wuqinxi, which is called the earliest health-keeping exercise. Up to now, people are still practicing this set of five beasts play to keep fit and get through the meridians.