Since modern times, with the spread of western civilization, western medicine has also entered the field of vision of Chinese people, and the living space of Chinese medicine has been seriously challenged. In the voice of doubt, Chinese medicine needs to correct its name and must produce evidence that Chinese medicine can do it. According to Han Kangxin, an archaeologist, in his article, China has discovered more than 30 craniotomy operations, of which 1 1 is absolutely for medical treatment. In Dawenkou culture discovered in Guangrao, Shandong Province, there is an oval defect on the right side of the skull found in the tomb. According to the results of physical anthropology and medical CT, it is considered that oval defect is caused by craniotomy.
However, in the process of proving itself, Chinese medicine has also fallen into a strange circle, that is, looking for some deeds from history to cooperate with some western medicine ideas. For example, western medicine can perform surgery, while Chinese medicine says that I can also find Huatuo from history, saying that Huatuo developed paralysis powder to perform surgery on patients. So Chinese medicine is no worse than western medicine, and Hua tuo is known as? The originator of surgery? . There are many similar examples, but I don't want to discuss the relationship between Chinese and western medicine here, but I want to focus on whether the ancient Chinese medicine represented by Hua Tuo has the ability to operate.
Because in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, including the folk saying that Hua Tuo can perform surgery, even craniotomy and other advanced surgical operations, there is not enough scientific basis. They can also do western medicine, and I can compare my mentality. In this state of mind, not paying attention to the fact itself is only a psychological effect. However, some new archaeological discoveries in recent years have brought some doubts to this view.
This statement is groundbreaking, because Dawenkou culture was more than 5,000 years ago, which means that China could have craniotomy and other operations 5,000 years ago. Because this statement is so incredible that many people don't believe it. In fact, this statement is really unacceptable to the people. How do we infer from the lost skull that we have had an operation? Why not get hurt in the war?
But there are other more obvious examples in archaeology. 199 1 year, archaeologists excavated an ancient tomb with a history of 2,500 years in a village in Shanshan, Xinjiang. A mummy was found in one of the graves. There was a wound in the abdomen of the corpse, which was stitched with coarse hair. Professor Lin Meicun of Peking University has done a lot of research on this basis and put forward a viewpoint: this is an abdominal operation, but it can't save lives. It can be inferred from this. Before Hua Tuo, ancient doctors in western China began to operate? According to these archaeological findings, there are indeed many clues that there were indeed surgical operations in ancient China. Coincidentally, although Hua Tuo's surgical skills have been lost, he is not only a famous doctor in ancient China.