His real name is said to be Qin Yueren (秦越人), but his medical skills were so amazing that people gave him the same name as the (original) legendary doctor Bian Que, from the time of the Yellow Emperor.

The lord brushed this aside as at that time he felt no symptoms, and told his attendants that Bian Que was just trying to profit from the fears of others.

He set a single acupuncture needle in the Baihui point on the head, helping the prince to regain consciousness.

Bian Que advocated the four-step diagnoses of "Looking (at their tongues and their outside appearances), Listening (to their voice and breathing patterns), Inquiring (about their symptoms), and Taking (their pulse)."

Gong Hu (公扈) from the state of Lu and Qi Ying (齊嬰) from the state of Zhao had opposite imbalances of qi (氣) "breath; life-force" and zhi (志) "will; intention".

Bian Que then gives the men an intoxicating wine that makes them "feign death" for three days.

While they are under the anesthetic effects of this concoction, Bian Que "cut open their breasts, removed their hearts, exchanged and replaced them, and applied a numinous medicine, and when they awoke they were as good as new."