Hua Tuo is called the "master of surgery" and "the originator of surgery" by later generations. Later generations often called him the miracle doctor Hua Tuo, and he was also praised as "Hua Tuo's reincarnation" and "Yuanhua's rebirth" as a physician with outstanding medical skills.

Hua Tuo, ziyuanhua, was born in Qiao County, Peiguo. He was a famous medical scientist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and had decades of medical practice and experience. He is good at various treatment methods such as health preservation, prescriptions, acupuncture and surgery, and is proficient in various medical specialties such as internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and pediatrics. Hua Tuo had superb medical skills, rapid curative effect, and simple treatment methods, so people called him the "miracle doctor".

When he was young, Hua Tuo often traveled abroad to study, and his footprints were all over Anhui, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and other places. Hua Tuo devoted himself to studying medical skills and did not pursue an official career. He was proficient in medical skills. Moreover, there are similar descriptions of him in books such as "Three Kingdoms" and "Book of the Later Han Dynasty". For example, he knew the art of nourishing the nature, had precise prescriptions, simple acupuncture, and miraculous surgeries.

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Hua Tuo is also one of the founders of medical sports in ancient China. He is not only good at treating diseases, but also advocates health preservation. He once said to his disciple Wu Pu: "The human body wants to work, but it should not be used to work. If it is shaken, the vulgarity will be eliminated, the blood will flow, diseases will not occur, and the door hinge will be immortal." Hua Tuo inherited and developed the preventive theory of his predecessors that "the sage does not cure his own disease, but cures the disease before it occurs", and compiled a set of aerobics for the elderly and infirm that imitated the postures of five animals such as apes, deer, bears, and tigers - " "Five Animals Play".

Hua Tuo could critically inherit the academic achievements of his predecessors and create new theories based on summarizing the experience of his predecessors. Chinese medicine had already made brilliant achievements in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Bian Que's elucidation of physiology and pathology can be said to be the culmination of it all. Hua Tuo's knowledge may have developed from Bian Que's theory.

At the same time, Hua Tuo also conducted in-depth research on the theories of Zhang Zhongjing at the same time. When he read the tenth volume of "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" written by Zhang Zhongjing, he happily said: "This is a real book written by a living person." It can be seen that Zhang Zhongjing's theory had a great influence on Hua Tuo. Hua Tuo followed the path opened by his predecessors and created a new world in a down-to-earth manner. For example, at that time he discovered the extracorporeal heart compression method and the mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration method. The most outstanding ones should be the invention of anesthesia—Mafei Powder for drinking alcohol and the creation of the sports therapy "Five Animals Play".

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Hua Tuo