# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hua-tuo
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:35:34.094Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/hua-tuo"
name: "Hua Tuo"
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description: "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."
tagline: "Chinese physician (c. 140–208)"
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birthDate: "200"
deathDate: "208"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.