Was there an operation in ancient China?

Yes The earliest surgical operation recognized by ancient Chinese medicine in China was the famous doctor Hua Tuo from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period. In the third century AD, he practiced medicine in Wei and Shu countries, and invented many surgical operations such as "scraping bones to heal wounds" and "cutting abdomen and clearing intestines", which were recorded in the Records of the Three Kingdoms and the Book of the Later Han Dynasty.

Hua Tuo first performed surgery under general anesthesia, and was called "the originator of surgery" by later generations. He is not only proficient in prescription science, but also admirable in acupuncture. Hua tuo visited many doctors everywhere and collected some drugs with anesthetic effect. After many different formulations of processing, he finally successfully trial-produced this anesthetic. He also mixed anesthetic with hot wine, which made the patient unconscious after taking it. Then cut open the abdominal cavity, remove the ulcer, wash away the putrefaction, sew it with mulberry thread and apply ointment, and it will be fine in one month. So Hua Tuo gave it a name-Mafengsan.

"Mafeisan" used by Hua Tuo is 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 general anesthesia operation is unprecedented in the medical history of China, and it is also a rare pioneering work in the medical history of the world.

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Hua Tuo is one of the few outstanding surgeons in the medical history of China. Good at anesthesia, acupuncture, moxibustion and other methods, good at thoracotomy. The surgical method is not the mainstream treatment method of traditional Chinese medicine based on the culture of "respecting Confucianism". Under the Confucian thought of "the strength of the body is what parents receive", surgery has not developed on a large scale in Chinese medicine.

According to the research of Japanese surgeon Huagang Qingzhou, Mafeisan consists of one liter of Datura flower, four yuan each for Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae and Rhizoma Chuanxiong, and one yuan for fried Rhizoma Arisaematis.

As early as the Han Dynasty, Chinese medicine surgery had reached a fairly high level. However, with the passage of time and the continuous progress of the theory and practice of traditional Chinese medicine, most diseases can be cured by acupuncture, drugs and other treatments, and these painful, severe injuries and broken meridians are gradually replaced by more civilized and simple internal treatment methods. Under this condition, Chinese medicine has also made great progress, and many other medicines have to admit that it is beyond science and the theory is exquisite and profound.

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