Chapter 75 of the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms records the story of Hua Tuo scraping bones and curing poison for Guan Yu. In the previous article, Guan Yu drowned the Seventh Army, escaped from the Forbidden City and beheaded Pound, which made him famous. When attacking Fancheng, he was wounded by Coss' crossbowman, shot in his right arm and turned over.
Hua tuo was called "the master of surgery" and "the originator of surgery" by later generations. Later generations used to call him Hua Tuo, an imperial doctor, and praised him as a doctor with superior medical skills with "Hua Tuo reincarnation" and "Yuan reincarnation".
Hua Tuo (about AD 145-208) was born in Guo Pei County (now Bozhou, Anhui Province) and was a famous doctor in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Hua Tuo, Dong Feng and Zhang Zhongjing are also called "Jian 'an Three Magical Doctors".
After decades of practice, Hua Tuo has mastered health care, prescription, acupuncture, surgery and other treatment methods, and is proficient in internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and pediatrics, with accurate diagnosis, simple method and rapid curative effect.
Brief introduction of Hua Tuo:
Hua Tuo was a folk doctor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. He is an introverted person, Pei Guoqiao (now Bozhou, Anhui). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wars were frequent and plagues prevailed. He is determined to practice medicine and relieve the suffering of patients. In order to treat people, he climbs mountains, collects medicines and walks around.
He has traveled all over parts of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui today. In the process of treating diseases and collecting medicines, his medical knowledge is increasingly profound and his clinical experience is constantly enriched. He is proficient in internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and acupuncture, especially in surgery, and later generations regard him as the originator of surgery.