Reveal: The miracle doctor Hua Tuo is actually a virtual person? _The following text information is collected and published by the editor for everyone. Let's take a look at it together!
In fact, it is not difficult to figure out a clue to this kind of debate. Most of the gods in China have had mortal identities. For example, the bodies of gods such as Zhong Kui, Zhang Guolao, and Lu Dongbin who once existed in a certain dynasty are actually just carriers. , few descendants study the condition of the physical body, and most of them will only burn incense and kowtow to them who have become gods. In the same way, the miracle doctor Hua Tuo has become a god in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, and the physical Hua Tuo who once existed in the late Eastern Han Dynasty is no longer important.
There probably was a person named Hua Tuo in history. According to the current administrative divisions, he was from Qiaocheng District, Bozhou City, Anhui Province. It is said that the Hua family was originally a prominent local family. By the time Hua Tuo was born, the family had fallen into decline, but it was still obvious that they were a learned family, otherwise why would their name be so strange? Tuo, many people did not know this word, it means load, indicating that his father expects him to take on important responsibilities when he grows up.
The literati in ancient China were very active, which allows us to see far more written materials than in other ancient civilizations. However, literati often do a disservice when they arbitrarily cross the line into the fields of history and medicine. The excessive hype about Hua Tuo finally turned him into a suspicious person. The Biography of Hua Tuo in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty describes that Hua Tuo was even a hundred years old, but he still had a strong appearance, and people at the time thought he was an immortal. There are also some historical records that Hua Tuo lived to be 150 or 60 years old and still maintained his appearance of 60 years old. These The magical text obviously affects the authenticity of other records about Hua Tuo.
In addition to his long life, Hua Tuo’s superb surgical operations are also suspicious. According to current common sense, it is incredible to be able to perform internal organ surgery in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is even more unthinkable to use a sharp ax to perform craniotomy. In ancient times, there was no way to test blood types or blood transfusions. How to replenish the blood lost during surgery? Using an ax to open the skull, not to mention how to control the strength, without oxygen equipment or cardiac pacing equipment, the success rate of the operation is definitely zero.
Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway! Many doctors of traditional Chinese medicine believed in Hua Tuo's miraculous surgery. Their conjecture is that Hua Tuo once mastered peerless medical skills through self-study, and his surgical ability may have reached a super-modern level across versions. He can take oral Mafei powder for general anesthesia before surgery, he can use acupuncture to stop bleeding, and he can use some magical herbal medicine to reduce inflammation and prevent infection after surgery. As for why the level of traditional Chinese medicine surgery declined greatly after Hua Tuo, it was because Hua Tuo came Before his death, Hua Tuo passed the Qingsang Sutra, which contained the essence of his life's medical work, to the jailer, but the wimp did not dare to accept it, so Hua Tuo burned the Qingsang Sutra, and Chinese medicine regressed greatly.
Hua Tuo had no masters and was completely self-taught. So why has there never been another Hua Tuo-style master of traditional Chinese medicine surgery for more than a thousand years? In this regard, some Chinese medicine explanations are now bound by feudal ethics. It is not filial piety to open your intestines and disembowel your body under the influence of your parents who do not dare to damage it. But if Hua Tuo had not conducted many human dissections, how could he have mastered the complex structure of the human body and brain? How did he get so many bodies for dissection in the feudal era? Didn't the local government intervene? Is there no pressure from public opinion?
The various exaggerations of Hua Tuo’s medical skills have inevitably been doubted by many non-TCM practitioners for thousands of years. Mr. Chen Yinke once pointed out that Hua Tuo’s deeds actually come from the story of the Indian miracle doctor Qi Yu. Considering that Cao Chong, a contemporary of Hua Tuo, said that Xiang also came from Indian Buddhist legends, Chen Yinke's statement has a certain possibility.
Anything that is touched by God must be more literary than true. There may indeed have been a famous doctor named Hua Tuo in history. Later, some people praised him as a miracle doctor, and continued to add insult to injury, so he became more and more like a non-human being. Over time, people began to wonder whether Hua Tuo was originally a virtual person.
The description of Hua Tuo’s medical skills in history books does raise questions. In ancient times when medical facilities were imperfect, could these difficult and complicated diseases really be cured with a silver needle and a few handfuls of herbs? But if there was no such person as Hua Tuo, why would his deeds be recognized by everyone?
It is still a mystery whether Hua Tuo exists in history.