中国历史文化概况(英文版)Unit 13 Scientist and Great Thinker
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Unit 13 Scientist and Great Thinker
来自百度文库
The oldest extant biographies of Hua Tuo are found in the
official Chinese histories for the Eastern Han (25-220) and
Three Kingdoms (189-280) eras. The 3rd-century Sanguozhi (三国志) and 5th-century Hou Hanshu (后汉书) record that Hua was from the district of Qiao (谯) in the state of Pei (沛), and studied Chinese classics throughout the Xuzhou region (modern Jiangsu and Shandong). Hua
refused employment offers from high-ranking officials and
chose to practice medicine.
Hua Tuo had mastered the technique for nourishing one's nature. Although his contemporaries thought that he must have been a hundred years old, he still looked hale and hardy. Hua Tuo was also highly skilled in prescribing medicines. In curing illnesses, the decoctions that he prepared required only a few ingredients. His mind was so adept at dividing up and compounding according to the right proportions that he did not have to weigh the different components of his medicines with a balance. Once the decoction was boiled thoroughly it could be drunk. Hua Tuo would tell the patient how to take the medicine and then would go away, after which the patient's condition would promptly improve.
If a sickness were concentrated internally where the effect of acupuncture needles and medicines could not reach it, Hua Tuo would recognize that it was necessary to operate. In such cases, he would have his patients drink a solution of morphean powder whereupon they would immediately become intoxicated as though dead and completely insensate. Then he could make an incision and remove the diseased tissues. If the disease were in the intestines, he would sever them and wash them out, after which he would stitch the abdomen together and rub on an ointment. After a period of about four or five days, there would be no more pain. The patient would gradually regain full consciousness and within a month he would return to normal.
If Hua Tuo employed moxibustion, he would only burn punk in one or two places and in each place he only made seven or eight separate cauterizations, to which the disease would rapidly respond during the course of its elimination. If he employed acupuncture, it was also only in one or two places. As he instated the needle, he would instruct the patient, "I am going to guide the point to such-and-such a spot. When you feel it reach there, tell me." As soon as the patient told him that the point had already reached the designated spot, he would withdraw the needle and the sickness would likewise be virtually alleviated.
来自百度文库
The oldest extant biographies of Hua Tuo are found in the
official Chinese histories for the Eastern Han (25-220) and
Three Kingdoms (189-280) eras. The 3rd-century Sanguozhi (三国志) and 5th-century Hou Hanshu (后汉书) record that Hua was from the district of Qiao (谯) in the state of Pei (沛), and studied Chinese classics throughout the Xuzhou region (modern Jiangsu and Shandong). Hua
refused employment offers from high-ranking officials and
chose to practice medicine.
Hua Tuo had mastered the technique for nourishing one's nature. Although his contemporaries thought that he must have been a hundred years old, he still looked hale and hardy. Hua Tuo was also highly skilled in prescribing medicines. In curing illnesses, the decoctions that he prepared required only a few ingredients. His mind was so adept at dividing up and compounding according to the right proportions that he did not have to weigh the different components of his medicines with a balance. Once the decoction was boiled thoroughly it could be drunk. Hua Tuo would tell the patient how to take the medicine and then would go away, after which the patient's condition would promptly improve.
If a sickness were concentrated internally where the effect of acupuncture needles and medicines could not reach it, Hua Tuo would recognize that it was necessary to operate. In such cases, he would have his patients drink a solution of morphean powder whereupon they would immediately become intoxicated as though dead and completely insensate. Then he could make an incision and remove the diseased tissues. If the disease were in the intestines, he would sever them and wash them out, after which he would stitch the abdomen together and rub on an ointment. After a period of about four or five days, there would be no more pain. The patient would gradually regain full consciousness and within a month he would return to normal.
If Hua Tuo employed moxibustion, he would only burn punk in one or two places and in each place he only made seven or eight separate cauterizations, to which the disease would rapidly respond during the course of its elimination. If he employed acupuncture, it was also only in one or two places. As he instated the needle, he would instruct the patient, "I am going to guide the point to such-and-such a spot. When you feel it reach there, tell me." As soon as the patient told him that the point had already reached the designated spot, he would withdraw the needle and the sickness would likewise be virtually alleviated.