After Cao Cao killed Hua tuo, why didn't he see the doctor Zhang Zhongjing?

Zhang Zhongjing is an official who likes to treat people. His lobby is not as difficult as other lobbies, but it is crowded on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wars were frequent and epidemics raged. Many people get sick, but because they can't get timely treatment, their condition deteriorates and they can only wait for death. Zhang Zhongjing is very sad to see this situation.

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Zhang Zhongjing is a hereditary Changsha satrap. He didn't like being an official since he was a child, and he didn't have the demeanor of being an official. His medical skills spread widely, but in feudal times, people could not easily contact officials, and officials could not casually enter people's homes. So Zhang Zhongjing opened a clinic at home when he was not at work, but the number was relatively small. The progress of doctors' medical skills is inseparable from a large number of cases. Only by constantly contacting patients and seeing different situations can we accumulate our own experience.

Later, Zhang Zhongjing came up with an idea He used the yamen lobby as a clinic and posted notices. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the prefect opened the lobby to treat guests. In the past two days, he only treated diseases and did not ask political affairs. After the news was published, it caused a sensation in Changsha and even the whole country. On the first day of junior high school, he sat straight in the lobby and people came in one after another. He inquired about the patients' condition carefully and then gave them medicine. For a time, he saved countless lives and the people supported him more. In this way, Zhang Zhongjing's reputation of sitting on the ground on the fifteenth day of the first month spread, and people admired him even more.

Later, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month became a routine. On this day, people from all over the country gathered at the entrance of Yamen to see a doctor, and some even came with luggage. People call him "sitting a doctor" in memory of Zhang Zhongjing.

Zhang Zhongjing and Cao Cao should have nothing to do. If the relationship between Cao Cao and doctors is mentioned, Hua Tuo should be mentioned more. But Zhang Zhongjing is also a generation of famous doctors, giving future generations a question. After Cao Cao killed Hua Tuo, why didn't he go to another famous doctor, Zhang Zhongjing?

Zhang Zhongjing has the title of medical sage and is also a very powerful figure in medical skills. Didn't Cao see Zhang Zhongjing? This should be impossible. After all, Cao Cao has a high position. If he can't find someone, it will be like a joke.

It is generally believed that Cao Cao did not go to see Zhang Zhongjing for three reasons.

First of all, Zhang Zhongjing has passed away. No matter how great Cao Cao is, the dead can't be kind to themselves. But according to those historical records, Zhang Zhongjing was still alive when Cao Cao was ill. This conclusion is wrong. It seems that Cao Cao can't find Zhang Zhongjing, which should have nothing to do with Zhang Zhongjing's life and death.

The second argument is that Zhang Zhongjing's medical skills are not good, but he has a famous medical book. This reason is even more far-fetched If Zhang Zhongjing's medical skill is not good, how can he write such a medical work as Treatise on Febrile Diseases for future generations to cherish? It is unlikely that there will be pure theorists in those days. Generally speaking, real knowledge comes from practice. So Zhang Zhongjing's medical skill is good.

The third statement is highly credible, that is, Zhang Zhongjing is mainly engaged in internal medicine. He usually treats typhoid fever, cold and fever, but he can't cure Cao Cao's headache. The so-called profession has specialization, Hua Tuo is more powerful in surgery, and Zhang Zhongjing is in internal medicine. Zhang Zhongjing, who was invited, could do nothing about his illness. This should be the main reason why Cao Cao did not look for Zhang Zhongjing.