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Treats infants with extremely thin hands and feet, a small neck with prominent bones, emaciated buttocks and flaccid body, distended abdomen with protruding umbilicus, chest depression when crying, or the occurrence of "Gu Syndrome" (severe malnutrition due to long-term food stagnation), which is named "Ding Xi".

Accompanied by alternating deficiency-heat. The cranial sutures are separated, food is vomited up along with parasites, accompanied by irritability, thirst, nausea, and retching, which is named "Bu Lu". Both conditions arise because the Spleen and Stomach have been deficient for a long time, failing to digest food and fluids to nourish Qi and Blood, leading to muscle wasting; Kidney Qi is insufficient, and further injured by Wind-Cold pathogens, causing the ribs to become withered and exposed. There are also cases caused by toxicity received in the womb and insufficient blood in the Zang-Fu organs. These all belong to diseases of the "Wugu" (Innocent) category and are difficult to treat. It is suitable to take the following prescription:

Qingpi (Green Tangerine Peel, removed pith), Chenpi (Aged Tangerine Peel, removed white pith), Pengzhu (Curcuma zedoaria Rhizoma, roasted), Chuanxiong (Ligusticum chionantiflorum Rhizome), Beiwulingzhi (Trogopterus Dung), Baidoukou Ren (Cardamomi Fructus seed), Jixinbingle (Arecae Semen), Lvhui (Aloe). (Each half tael).
The above herbs are ground into fine powder. Form pills using cake paste soaked in Pig Bile (Su Dan Huang), sized like hemp seeds. Take 30 pills each time, washed down with Rice Decoction (Mi Yin). If there is heat, wash down with Mint Decoction (Bohe Tang).

Treats the condition where a pregnant woman is disturbed by evil spirits affecting her abdomen, causing illness in the fetus. The symptoms include diarrhea, alternating chills and fever, and lackluster hair and eyebrows. It also treats the situation where a mother who has a child unable to walk yet becomes pregnant again, and allows that child to drink this milk, resulting in the same disease.

Longdancao (Gentianae Radix), Beichaihu (Bupleuri Radix, removed rhizome and sprouts), Huangqin (Scutellariae Radix), Jiegeng (Platycodonis Radix), Gouteng Pi (Uncariae Ramulus Cum Uncis Cortex), Shaoyao (Paeoniae Radix), Gancao (Licorice Root, honey-fried), Fuling (Poria). (Each two qian and half).
Qianglang (Scarabaeus).
The above herbs are cut into pieces for decoction. Use one sheng of water, boil to obtain five he as one dose. Children under ten years old can take it. If the infant is one to seven days old, divide one he into three doses. If sixteen to twenty days old, divide two he into three doses. If twenty to thirty days, or forty days old, use the entire five he divided into three doses. All should be taken until [therapeutic effect is achieved] (Original text ends abruptly at "De").

Treats food stagnation, with miraculous effect.
Badou (Crotonis Fructus, 25 grains, soak in water overnight, discard water at dawn, remove skin, shell, heart membrane, but do not remove oil, grind separately), Qingfen (Calomelas).
The above are ground into powder, mixed with rice paste to form pills sized like millet grains. For infants under one year old, use 3 pills each time; for those over one year old, use 4 pills each time. If ineffective, increase the number of pills. For phlegm-fluid retention above the diaphragm, this method takes [to induce vomiting/purgation] (Original text cuts off after "Ci Qu"). Breast milk...