Wú Pǔ 吳普, native of Guǎnglíng 廣陵 (modern Yángzhōu, Jiāngsū), fl. mid-third century CE, was one of the principal medical disciples of Huà Tuó 華佗 (華佗) and the author of the lost Wú Pǔ běncǎo 吳普本草 (KR3ec002). His biography is preserved as a sub-notice within Huà Tuó’s liè zhuàn in 《後漢書·方術傳》 (also at 《三國志·魏志》 j.29): “Pǔ studied with Tuó, followed his prescriptions, and saved many lives.” The Hòu Hàn shū further reports that Wú lived to over ninety years, retaining clear sight and hearing — held up as an exemplar of the efficacy of the Five Animal Exercises 五禽戲, the dǎoyǐn 導引 routine that Wú learned from Huà and transmitted to later generations.
His Běncǎo in six juǎn was lost by the Sòng but is partly recoverable from citations in Tàipíng yùlǎn, Yìwén lèijù, Chū xué jì, Hòu Hàn shū zhù, and Shì lèi fù. The work catalogues the divergent opinions of pre-Hàn / Hàn pharmacological authorities (Shénnóng, Huángdì, Qí Bó, Léi Gōng, Tóng Jūn, Yī Hé, Biǎn Què, and Wú’s contemporary Lǐ Dāngzhī 李當之) on each substance — making it a unique witness to the plurality of early Chinese materia medica.
No CBDB id; the figure is securely third-century and not in the database’s normal scope.