# Hua Tuo

> A surgeon in second-century China who put patients under with wine and cannabis powder, then operated while they slept — the first recorded use of general anaesthesia, seventeen centuries before ether.

*Chinese physician (c. 140–208)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Country:** China
- **Born:** 200
- **Died:** 208
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Hua Tuo lived through the late Eastern Han dynasty, a physician whose name survives in the Records of the Three Kingdoms and the Book of the Later Han. He combined wine with mafeisan — "cannabis boil powder" — to knock patients out before surgery, a technique no earlier Chinese text describes. Beyond the knife he worked in acupuncture, moxibustion, and herbal medicine, and created the Wuqinxi, a set of therapeutic exercises modeled on the movements of five animals: tiger, deer, bear, ape, crane. He died around 208, his methods remembered long after the dynasty collapsed.

## Fame
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- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #124

## Topics
#Doctors, #Doctor, #Medicine, #Ancient History

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