Liu was born in Cangzhou, Hebei. He was smart since he was a child and loved reading very much, but he never studied medicine. Because of his father's early death, his life with his mother was extremely difficult. By the age of 25, he was unable to seek medical treatment for his seriously ill mother for many times because of poverty, which delayed medical treatment and eventually led to his death. This incident deeply hurt Liu and had a great influence on him.

As a result, Liu began to learn from this painful experience and began to learn Huangdi Neijing at such a young age. Thanks to Liu's in-depth research, he finally had an epiphany and put forward a set of rules governing the operation of the human body. He believed that all human diseases were caused by fiery heat, and advocated cold therapy, who eventually formed the so-called "Cold School" in later generations and was called the founder of the "Cold School". Until he was in his fifties, he still studied and wrote many famous medical articles that influenced future generations for hundreds of years.

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Because Liu's dialectical medication works wonders, there is always a lot of traffic in front of his house, and some very serious patients recover quickly after taking a few pills. He was well aware of the sufferings of the people at that time, so he often gave drugs to patients for free, and his medical ethics was very high. Once, on his way out to practice medicine, Liu saw a family in mourning. Strangely, the coffin of that family kept bleeding, and it was only when asked that it was a woman who died in childbirth.

From a medical point of view, he thought that this situation showed that his mother was not dead, and he quickly advised his family to stop mourning, and then he quickly opened the coffin. Unexpectedly, after only a few stitches, the woman woke up, and then changed the acupuncture points to continue needling, and soon even the fetus was born smoothly. The family thought he was a fairy, so they all knelt down and kowtowed.