Hua Tuo heals the sick

　Cao Cao was defeated at Chibi and returned to Xudu, depressed and unhappy. At this time, his beloved youngest son, Cang Shu, became seriously ill, and the family asked doctors everywhere for medicine, but nothing worked. Seeing that the child was hopeless, Cao Cao said sadly, "If Hua Tuo were here, the child would not have died so early."

　　Hua Tuo, as Cao Cao called him, was a famous medical doctor in China's history, and he was from the same town as Cao Cao. Hua Tuo was familiar with scriptures since childhood and was especially proficient in medicine. No matter what difficult and complicated diseases were in his hands, they were mostly cured. When local officials and the court lieutenant heard of Hua Tuo's fame, they called him to be an official. But Hua Tuo refused to go.

　　Hua Tuo was extremely accurate in diagnosing diseases. Once, two officials had a headache and fever and sought treatment from Hua Tuo. After Hua Tuo asked them about their conditions, he prescribed a laxative for one and a sweating medicine for the other. Someone was watching Hua Tuo's prescription and asked him why he used different medicines for the same condition. Hua Tuo said, "This disease looks the same on the surface, but it is different. The former one was internally ill and should take laxatives; the latter one was only suffering from some external sensation, so let him sweat and he would be fine." These two men went back and took the medicine, and they were both cured.

　　Another general named Li asked Hua Tuo to treat his wife. When Hua Tuo went there, he felt her pulse and said, "The fetus was left in her belly because she had hurt herself during pregnancy." General Li said, "My wife has already had a miscarriage and the fetus has already come down." Hua Tuo said.

　　"According to my judgment, the fetus is still in the patient's belly."

　　General Li did not believe it. After Hua Tuo left, after more than a hundred days, his wife became sicker and sicker, so he had to ask Hua Tuo to treat her again.

　　Hua Tuo said, "There must be a necrotic fetus in the belly. Probably your wife had twins, and one of them was born in miscarriage first, and the other one was left in her belly."

　　Hua Tuo gave the patient some soup and medicine and stuck needles into her, and she was able to deliver a stillborn fetus.

　　Hua Tuo was not only good at internal medicine but also good at open surgery. He prepared a kind of anesthetic called Ma Bo San. A patient was suffering from belly pain and the pain was so severe that after ten days, his beard and eyebrows all fell off. When Hua Tuo made a diagnosis, he said, "This is an ulcerated spleen, so we must open the abdomen quickly." Hua Tuo told the patient to take Ma Bo San, opened the abdominal cavity, removed the necrotic spleen, sewed up the wound, and put on ointment. After four or five days, the wound healed and he recovered in a month.

　　There are many other legends about Hua Tuo's healing recorded in history books. It is said that a governor was sick and had many doctors to treat him, but he was not cured. After the treatment, Hua Tuo thought that the only way to cure this disease was to make the patient angry. After a few days, he left without saying goodbye and left a letter scolding the sheriff that he had brought the disease on himself.

　　The governor was really angry and immediately sent his men to hunt down Hua Tuo. The son of the sheriff knew Hua Tuo's intention and secretly told his family not to catch him. When the shogun heard that Hua Tuo could not be caught, he became even more furious and vomited some black blood in his anger. He was so angry that he vomited some black blood, but when he vomited, he was cured.

　　Cao Cao had been suffering from the headwind. When he was under work pressure, his head wind attacked and the pain was unbearable. He heard that Hua Tuo was a good doctor, so he invited him here. Cao Cao refused to let him go and kept him as an attendant medical officer so that he could treat him at any time.