It is recorded that Hua Tuo was killed because he didn't want to continue to treat Cao Cao, and his life is a mystery. Through a series of examples, the article praised Hua Tuo's superb medical skills, such as his two great medical skills.
First, use acupuncture to treat diseases.
The second is: let the patient drink his own hemp boiling powder, let him feel nothing after drinking it, and then cut off the treatment of the disease, which has a magical effect, and was later honored as the originator of surgery.
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After decades of medical practice, Hua Tuo has mastered the treatment methods such as health preservation, prescription, acupuncture and surgery. Proficient in internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and pediatrics, accurate diagnosis, simple method and rapid curative effect. He is called the "imperial doctor".
In this regard, there are similar comments in the History of the Three Kingdoms and the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, saying that he is good at keeping in good health ("the art of keeping in good health means that people think that they are a hundred years old and strong") and uses drugs accurately ("there are only a few prescriptions for treating diseases and only a few soups, so he will not be called again, and he will drink it after cooking and give up his efforts."
Acupuncture is simple ("if you use a needle, it means one or two places, the needle says' talk to people when you come', the patient says' pull it out when you come' and' pull out the disease if you want to pull it out'), and the operation is magical ("cut back, cut product "and" wash intestines "). There are 6 medical records of the Three Kingdoms 16, 5 biographies of Hua Tuo, 5 other documents, and 26 * * *, which are mostly seen by physicians in the pre-Qin and Han dynasties.