Chinese first invented the people as hua tuo

Hua tuo (? - a.d.208 years) is at the end of the eastern han dynasty, his outstanding scientists in China is also the world first invented anesthetic, and earliest application of general anesthesia, be rated as "surgical earliest medical home".

Hua tuo, characters of copious country qiao county (now anhui province, he retained county) of the feudal dynasties told him many times refused to commend and imperial edicts, the officials throughout this practicing jiangsu, shandong, henan, anhui and some other regions, by when the affection of his people. He is knowledgeable, medical consummate, good at inside, outside, women, son, acupuncture the families, especially in surgical as the most. In early over 1,700 years ago he invented the Chinese medicine to narcotics -- all of boiling scattered, and Massachusetts surgery. His invention of the "scattered" Massachusetts, boiling patients with blunt, will shower, general anesthesia unconscious. So good for surgery medical care. According to the HouHanShu medicaments, hua tuo "account his surgery cases said:" if the disease hair knot at inside, who did not and needle medicine, it is served with wine boiling first scattered, already drunk Massachusetts without sleep, Ku break in front, smoke cut accumulation; if in the intestines and stomach, then remove disease JianXi, broken section, apply; then suture swore in god anointed. Four more, between 5 and all astringent. "January So the successful laparoscopic surgery under general anesthesia, not only in our medical history is unprecedented, but in world anesthesiology and surgical academic history also far no.1.

According to history records, the 19th century British chemist David found laughing gas (nitric oxide). In 1844 American chemist kaoer meal in the role of human body research laughing gas. 1845 with January wales and make anesthetic laughing gas tooth surgery. In 1846 October for the meal adopts ether surgery in 1847 anesthetics, English chemist XinPuXun the chloroform in cure for anesthesia. Fahrenheit invention and use more western leading 1600 anesthetics, seven hundred years.

Hua tuo invention "scattered" had reached the boiling flax in Japan, Korea, Morocco and other countries. According to the American people in the world medical rawalpindi of say: "the Arab people use anesthetics, may be China, because China famous doctors out of this art is good at hua tuo."

Hua tuo works and hemp is boiling scattered party earlier generations, according to textual research, hemp boiling scattered party may have cirsoid tuo rose flower, monkshood, such as aconite. Japan hanaoka seishu think hemp boiling scattered flowers, rose tendril tuo of uzziah, sweet a. dahurica born grass, whole angelica, xiong, fry south of magnitude. Modern medicine Bi open for the first record anesthetics are discussed later says: hua tuo of flax boiling scattered used a measurement of moab according to host medicine model, hemp Ben, not the sheep flower, make gold flower, etc. (the new medicine journal 1975.12.24-37 pages). Modern research in China has proven cirsoid tuo Laura spend an anesthetic effect, and has been applied to clinical.