Unscrupulous genius doctor——Hua Tuo

The Three Divine Doctors in Jian'an - "Bad Divine Doctors" Hua Tuo

Hua Tuo, whose courtesy name was Yuanhua, was from Qiao (now Hao County, Anhui), and was a native of Qing. Historical records: "I traveled to Xu Tu and was also familiar with several classics." He was first the prime minister of Pei at that time, and Chen Gui, the father of the prefect of Guangling, General Fubo of Wei, was appointed as a filial and honest person. Later, the Grand Marshal Huang Wan also rebuked him, but he did not become an official due to the chaos in the world.

Hua Tuo's medical skills have always been popular. He could have undergone surgery to open the abdominal cavity during the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then used needle and thread to suture it, which is the same as modern medical skills. The book says: "If the disease is in the intestines, it will be washed with the intestines and rub the abdominal cream. It will be fine for four or five days, and it will not hurt. It will not hurt by itself. It will calm down in one month... Some people have a half-cut pain in the abdomen. In more than ten days, their temples and eyebrows fell. Tuo said: "It is the spleen that is half-corrosive, which can be used to nourish the abdomen. "Make the medicine to lie down, break the abdomen and look at it, and the spleen fruit is half-corrosive. Use a knife to cut it off, scrape off the bad meat, use ointment to make the sores, drink it with medicine, and calm it down in a hundred days. "Hua Tuo could perform spleen removal surgery 1,800 years ago, which shows how good his medical skills are.

The "Mafei Powder" he invented is also the earliest known pure Chinese medicine surgical anesthetic in the world. It has magical effects. "If the disease accumulates and cannot reach the level of acupuncture and medicine, it is necessary to drink the Mafei Powder. In a moment, it will be like a drunken death and ignorant of nothing, and it will be damaged." It can make the subject feel like he died of drunkenness and ignorant of nothing during the operation.

In Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there is a description of Hua Tuo scraping the bones for Guan Yu to cure poison. It says that Guan Yu was in the poisonous arrow station of the Wei army during the Battle of Xiangyang. Hua Tuo cut off the arm and scraped the bones for Guan Yu to remove the severe poison from the bones. However, Guan Yu's expression remained unchanged and he was still playing chess with others. This paragraph describes Guan Yu's bravery and also describes the genius doctor Hua Tuo's excellent medical skills.

But this passage was actually fabricated by Mr. Luo. It is true that Guan Yu scrapes his bones to cure poison. "The Three Kingdoms", "Book of Shu" and "Biography of Guan Yu" records: "Yu once was trapped by a wandering arrow and penetrated his left arm. Although the wound was cured later, the bones often hurt. The doctor said: "The arrows are poisonous, and the poison enters the bones. When the arm is broken, it is used to scrape the bones to remove the poison. Then the disease is removed. "Yu stretches his arm and asks the doctor to chop it. At that time, Yu asked the generals to eat and eat, and the blood flows away from the arm, and the blood fills the plate. Yu cuts the roast and causes wine to attract wine, and he smiles calmly." The statement here is that Guan Yu asked the doctor to cure poison for him while drinking at a banquet. If this matter is inferred based on historical facts, it will happen before the Battle of Xiangyang, rather than during the Battle of Xiangyang as mentioned in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Secondly, the doctor was not Hua Tuo, but a military doctor in Guan Yu's army.

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Luo Guanzhong gave Hua Tuo the credit for treating Guan Yu for his suspicious character. Later, when Hua Tuo treated Cao Cao with headache, he proposed to perform a craniotomy on Cao Cao. Cao Cao became suspicious and contacted Hua Tuo for treating Guan Yu for treating Guan Yu, and suspected that he was going to murder him, so he was imprisoned and sentenced to death.

To be honest, using Hua Tuo's medical skills to treat Guan Yu's injury, it should be said that he was killing a chicken with a ox knife, and there was no problem. What I want to talk about here is that Hua Tuo's death is not what Luo Guanzhong said in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and he was suspected of having to commit a craniotomy for Cao Cao and finally died unfortunately.

The reason why Hua Tuo died in history was that he wanted to be an official and become a political official. Hua Tuo was born as a scholar. As mentioned above, he "studied on Xu Tu and was well-versed in several classics", and then became famous all over the world for his superb medical skills. However, in the Han Dynasty, to use the old saying, "Everything is inferior, but only high in reading." Doctors, in the history books, were classified into "Biography of Fang Ji", and it is impossible to list a single biography, and one or two can be seen from this.

Hua Tuo has always been worried about his doctor's identity and felt ashamed of it. Historical saying: "However, I am a scholar, who uses medical treatment to see his career and always regrets himself." Therefore, Hua Tuo is always looking for opportunities to embark on the career of the official career. Unfortunately, everyone regards him as a good doctor, while no one regards him as a scholar who can enter politics. This is understandable. It would be a pity for a good doctor to let him abandon his doctor's identity and let him enter politics. As Hua Tuo, his ideal is to embark on the career of the official career, and this idea is not wrong. If he uses his talents to learn to embark on the career of the world, it may not be a good thing.

It’s a pity that Hua Tuo not only made a big mistake in trying to embark on the career of the government, but also exposed his moral flaws and paid the price of his life for it.

Cao Cao, the king of Wei, suffered from headaches, and later became even worse. Hua Tuo became famous for his medical skills, so Cao Cao "made Tuo focus on it". Hua Tuo became Cao Cao's "Imperial Doctor". After Hua Tuo saw Cao Cao's condition, he said, "It's hard to help you, and it can be delayed by the years." It means that this disease is difficult to cure for a while and it takes time to do so. During the treatment of Cao Cao, Hua Tuo began to deliberately delay the process and used the excuse of "'I should get the letter from my family, and I want to return it temporarily." Then he returned home. After he got home, he pretended to resign because his wife was sick and did not return several times. The original intention was to threaten Cao Cao and seek an official position.

Cao Cao repeatedly wrote to greet him and ordered the county to send him off, but "(Hua) Tuo was so angry that he could not go to the road." Cao Cao was then "furious and sent someone to go to the inspection", but he still carefully sought to verify it first, and did not convict Hua Tuo: "If your wife believes in illness, she will give you 40 hu of beans to be free of charge; if she is deceitful, she will receive it." So Hua Tuo's lies were exposed and she was imprisoned.

After Hua Tuo was imprisoned, Xun Yu, the number one adviser under Cao Cao, pleaded for Hua Tuo, saying: "Tuo's skills are practical and the county is worthy of being born in the county." However, Cao Cao refused and said: "Don't worry, there should be no such rat in the world?" At this time, Cao Cao's contempt for Hua Tuo was already beyond words.

As a doctor, he deliberately delayed the treatment of patients as a means of going into a career and threatened it. Hua Tuo's move was really a detrimental to medical ethics and could be called an unscrupulous doctor. It is reasonable for Cao Cao to look down on him.

Therefore, after Hua Tuo's death, Cao Cao's head-on disease still occurred from time to time, but he never regretted it. He said, "Tuo can cure this. A villain raised me and wanted to respect myself. However, if I don't kill this son, I will never cut off this root for me." This sentence came to the nail on the head, revealing Hua Tuo's thoughts and the reason for Hua Tuo's death. It's a pity that Hua Tuo was a genius doctor of a generation, and his medical skills were first-class, but he wanted to play power with Cao Cao, a heroic Cao, which was too underestimated by Cao Cao.

The only time Cao Cao regretted killing Hua Tuo was when his beloved son Cang Shu was seriously ill. At that time, he said, "I regret killing Hua Tuo, so that this son will die forcibly." This shows his love for this son. No wonder Cao Pi later said that if Cang Shu was there, it would be a problem whether he could be regarded as a prince.

From this we can see that although Hua Tuo had excellent medical skills, he was really not very good at being a human being. He actually tried to use the patient's illness to threaten it to realize his desire to embark on the career path. Unfortunately, he finally made all the calculations, but he lost Qingqing's life. Not only did he die, but he also lost his "Ma Fei San" and his superb surgical operations. If all these were passed down, then Chinese medicine might be able to fill the shortcomings in surgical operations. Now only the fitness "Five Animal Show" he created and some small tricks of castrations and castrations. It is really regrettable that people were regarded as their ancestor by the castration craftsmen walking through the streets.

PS: I didn't want to upload this reference material to avoid being suspected of fraudulent clicks and word counts. Besides, it is a matter of opinion. Although it has certain historical value, it is always bad to talk about the ancients. But I saw that many book friends knew very little about Hua Tuo's deeds and had some slight remarks about the plot of New Third Middle School. After thinking about it again and again, I decided to upload it.
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