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This formula is used to treat children suffering from Qi deficiency due to prolonged illness caused by cold damage (Shanghan), epidemic febrile diseases, or smallpox/rash, vomiting, and diarrhea. It presents with symptoms such as convulsions of the four limbs, opisthotonos (backward arching of the neck and back), upward deviation of the eyes (Tian Diao), drooling, deep coma, and loss of consciousness. It is effective for all these conditions.

Huangqi (Astragali Radix, 1.5 liang, raw) Dangshen (Codonopsis Radix, 3 qian) Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma, 2 qian) Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, 2 qian) Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix, 2 qian) Baishao (Paeoniae Radix Alba, 2 qian) Zaoren (Ziziphi Spinosae Semen, 3 qian, stir-fried) Shanyuzhu (Corni Fructus, 1 qian) Gouqizi (Lycii Fructus, 2 qian) Guozhi (Psoraleae Fructus, 1 qian) Hetao (Juglandis Semen, one piece, crushed with shell)
Decoct in water and take orally.

The dosages listed above refer to a four-year-old child; for a two-year-old, the dosage can be halved; for a one-year-old, one-third of the dosage may be used; for infants of two to three months, one-quarter of the dosage may be used. There is no need to rigidly adhere to the number of doses. In my treatment of such cases, it is common to administer two or three doses within a single day. Once the convulsions cease, you must inform the family not to stop medication immediately just because the convulsions have stopped; several additional doses should be taken until the Qi is sufficient to ensure stability.

Formula Verse:
Kebao Lisu contains Psoralea and Jujube Seed,
Atractylodes, Angelica, White Peony, Codonopsis, and Licorice,
Cornus and Lycium decocted in water,
Plus one walnut crushed with its shell.

Regarding pediatric smallpox/rash, from the Han Dynasty to the present, there are countless books written and formulas created. Generally, they merely distinguish between favorable (Shun) and unfavorable/adverse (Xian/Ni) patterns, differentiating severity and prognosis of life and death, without addressing the root cause. Some follow the Jiedu Tang (Detoxification Decoction), using Xijiao (Rhinoceros Horn) and Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma). Smallpox is essentially one disease, yet the medications used are completely different. For favorable or severe smallpox, by assessing the child's strength and weakness, and applying tonifying, purging, or cooling methods accordingly, recovery can be expected. However, once an adverse pattern appears, there are no formulas for treatment, and it is simply declared as "destiny," leading to death. This stems from ignorance of the true origin of smallpox. One might ask: If the ancients did not know the origin of smallpox, how could they predict death based on the appearance of adverse rashes? I reply: This was not because the ancients knew the origin of smallpox, but because they saw many cases and learned that if rash appeared on Day X, took Form Y, showed Color Z, and presented Symptom W, and treatment failed, death would occur on Day N. The ancients' ability to predict death likely arose from this empirical observation. If they truly understood the origin of smallpox, surely there would be formulas for treatment? Another question: As you say, can adverse smallpox be saved? I reply: Severe smallpox responds readily to treatment and is not worth discussing. As for adverse patterns, they all have an origin; if this origin is clarified, can they not be cured? Take my treatments: Stifled smallpox failing to erupt, densely clustered over the body, fine like silkworm cocoons, flat like snake skin, appearing without fever, presenting as purple-black spots, densely packed without gaps, mixed with purple, white, and gray colors, covering the head, locking the mouth, locking the neck, swelling the cheeks, with non-swollen skin and flesh, generalized blisters, failing to swell and fill with pus, failing to suppurate and form scabs... poor appetite, and at critical moments, inability to lift the head, foot deformity, upward deviation of the eyes, and opisthotonos. At the initial stage, if deficiency and excess are distinguished, recovery can be expected. Those who reject this theory fail to see that I am supplementing what predecessors missed and resolving current difficulties; those who do not understand this theory criticize me as arrogant, unaware that I am actually revealing the true origin of smallpox. Unlike other schools that claim smallpox is always "fetal toxin." Other texts state: There were no smallpox cases before the Han Dynasty. If it is fetal toxin, were people before the Han not born of parents? This argument is laughable. If we follow ancient theories claiming fetal toxin resides in the Zang-Fu organs, why were the organs healthy before eruption? If it resides in the muscles, why were there no lesions before eruption? Believing that fright, falls, food stagnation, or colds trigger it implies negligence. Consider that during peak outbreaks, it affects not just one person, but regions or provinces. Did everyone in multiple provinces simultaneously become negligent? This is absurd. Furthermore, doctors performing variolation produce only favorable outcomes regardless of quantity. If it were fetal toxin, toxicity would vary in severity, making severe cases dangerous; how could variolation always yield favorable results? Thus, why is the concept of "fetal toxin" so unbreakable? In fact, smallpox is not fetal toxin, but turbid Qi within the blood of the conception vessel. When the fetus forms in the womb, it begins with a essence condensing into a embryo. Subsequent growth of organs and limbs relies entirely on maternal blood. The turbid Qi in the blood of the conception vessel remains hidden in the Ying (Nutritive) blood after birth. When encountering epidemic pathogens that disturb turbid Qi, it enters via the nose and mouth into the airways, then reaches the blood vessels, driving the turbid Qi out through the skin. Its color is red like flowers, hence called Tianhua (Heavenly Flowers); its shape is round like pockmarks, hence called Dou (Smallpox). In summary: Light exposure to epidemic pathogens allows toxins to exit with the rash, resulting in a favorable course; heavy exposure causes toxins to linger internally, unable to exit with the rash, resulting in a severe course; extremely heavy exposure burns the blood internally. Burnt blood coagulates, turning purple; dead blood turns black. Purple-black smallpox indicates this condition. Dead blood blocks pathways, preventing external expulsion of epidemic toxins, forcing them to attack internal Zang-Fu organs. The Zang-Fu suffer from toxic fire, generating adverse patterns corresponding to various meridians. What smallpox texts call "adverse smallpox of a specific meridian" is actually not meridian-specific adverse smallpox, but epidemic toxin affecting that meridian. The favorability or adversity of smallpox depends on the severity of the epidemic infection. The key to treating smallpox lies entirely in eliminating the epidemic toxin. If the toxin is not eliminated, even few lesions will lead to death. If the toxin is eliminated, even numerous lesions will not be fatal. Smallpox texts discuss treating fetal toxin but ignore epidemic toxin; even if they acknowledge epidemic toxin, they fail to recognize its nest is in the blood. By distinguishing the severity of epidemic toxin, the patency of blood, and the deficiency/excess of Qi, one can save adverse smallpox instantly. This is what is meant by: "He who understands the essentials needs but one word to conclude."