Huà Tuó 華佗 (zì Yuánhuà 元化; also called Fū 旉; conventional lifedates c. 145–208 CE), native of Qiáo 譙 (modern Bózhōu, Ānhuī), the legendary physician of the late Eastern Hàn / Three Kingdoms era. His biography is preserved in 《後漢書·方術傳》 j.82 and 《三國志·魏志》 j.29.
Huà is credited in his classical biographies with extraordinary medical accomplishments — including the use of anaesthesia (má fèi sǎn 麻沸散) for surgery, abdominal surgery for parasitic disease, the Wǔqín xì 五禽戲 dǎoyǐn exercise routine, and a wide range of diagnostic feats. He was executed by Cáo Cāo 曹操 after refusing to remain as personal physician.
His principal medical disciples were Wú Pǔ 吳普 (author of the Wú Pǔ běncǎo KR3ec002) and Lǐ Dāngzhī 李當之; their works partly transmit his pharmacological knowledge. Huà’s own writings (the Qīng náng shū 青囊書, attributed) did not survive; he is known principally through his biographies and disciples’ transmissions.
No CBDB record (he predates the conventional CBDB scope). Modern English-language sources include Hsu, Elisabeth, Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine: The Telling Touch (CUP 2010), and the biographical entries in Dictionary of Medical Biography (Bynum and Bynum, 2007).