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For newborns who do not cry after birth, grasp the umbilical cord and stroke it towards the body, while blowing into the infant's mouth one hundred times. Alternatively, whip the infant with white parts of green onions (Cong Bai).

When bathing a newborn, take one pig gallbladder (Zhu Dan), add the bile to the bath water, so that the infant will not develop sores or scabies.

If an infant dies immediately after birth, quickly check the area above the anterior fontanelle in front of the uvula (Xuan Yong) in the infant's mouth for any membrane. Quickly puncture the head of the membrane with fingernails to rupture it and drain the blood. Do not let the blood enter the throat.

For infants whose umbilicus fails to heal, burn honeycomb (Feng Fang) to ash, powder it, and apply it to the site.

For infants suffering from wind-stroke with locked jaw (Kou Jin), make pills the size of hemp seeds using sparrow droppings (Que Shi), swallow them, and drink water; they will be cured.

If an infant takes too much cinnabar honey (Zhu Mi) within three days of birth, yin epilepsy (Yin Xian) may occur. Within three days, the total amount of cinnabar honey should not exceed the size of three beans. After administering cinnabar honey, give realgar-free rhinoceros horn substitute (Niu Huang), also about the size of three beans, to eliminate various diseases in the infant. After Niu Huang, provide rice gruel (Mi Yin). Grind rice to make thick gruel, giving the infant amounts the size of a bean, stopping at three beans, three times a day. Begin breastfeeding only after seven days.

For infants suffering from delayed closure of the anterior fontanelle (Jie Lu), dry and powder snake skin (She Tui), mix it with marrow from the pig's cheekbone (Zhu Jia Che Sui), and apply to the top of the head, three to four times daily.

If an infant's abdomen suddenly turns blue-black, apply Hu Fen (Lead Carbonate) mixed with wine. If not treated urgently, death will follow shortly.

Another prescription: Moxibustion at points half an inch left, right, above, and below the umbilicus, and one inch below the Jianwei bone. Five points in total, three moxa cones per point.

For infants with sudden severe abdominal distension nearing death, lightly roast Pinellia ternata (Ban Xia) to powder, form pills the size of millet grains with wine, administer five pills, three times daily.

For infants with erysipelas (Dan Du), crush Shen Huo Cao, extract the juice, and apply externally.

For infants with wandering red swelling (Chi You Zhong), if it covers the whole body and enters the heart and abdomen, it is fatal. Powder Fulong Gan (Caulis Longan / Hearth Earth), mix with egg white (Ji Zi Bai), and apply. Change when dry.

Another prescription: Apply powder of white beans (Bai Dou) mixed with water. Keep it moist.

For red swollen eruptions on the body, roast rice flour until black, mix with saliva, and apply.

For infants with jaundice due to cold damage (Shang Han), take three he of juice from Trichosanthes root (Tu Gua Gen) and ingest.

Another prescription: Ingest juice from young wheat (Qing Mai).

Another prescription: Extract juice from garlic chive roots (Jiu Gen), clarify it, and drip into the infant's nose like a soybean size; yellow fluid will discharge, and the condition will resolve.

For infants with cholera-like disorder (Huo Luan), grind urine sediment, mix with milk, and administer.

Another prescription: Instill one he of ox saliva (Niu Xian) into the mouth.

For infants with external fright invasion (Ke Wu), swallow musk (She Xiang) the size of a soybean; immediate cure.

Another prescription: Cover the infant with the placenta (Yue Yi); highly effective.

Another prescription: Ingest nasal mucus from an ox.

Another prescription: Apply oral saliva from an ox to the nipple for the infant to suck.

Another prescription: Take a ball of hot horse manure, squeeze out the juice, and give to the infant; cure upon defecation. Also treats crying with cyanotic face and abdominal rigidity.

If an infant accidentally swallows a needle, take magnetite (Ci Shi) the size of a jujube pit, swallow or hold it in the mouth; the needle will be expelled immediately.

For accidental swallowing of iron objects, take one bunch of mugwort (Ai Hao), chop it, boil in five sheng of water until reduced to one and a half sheng, and ingest; the object will be passed.

For accidental swallowing of hair, burn tangled hair to ash, and ingest one qian with wine.

For swallowing coins, take five liang of mugwort, boil in five sheng of water until reduced to one sheng, ingest at once; the coin will be passed.

Another prescription: Ingest powder of burning charcoal (Huo Tan) with wine, measured by a square-inch spoon (Fang Cun Bi); water can also be used.

Another prescription: Ingest two sheng of honey; the object will be expelled.

For swallowing gold or silver hairpins/rings, eat two jin of white sugar gradually in one sitting; more is better.

Another prescription: Ingest one liang of mercury (Shui Yin), repeat dosage.

For swallowing rings, burn twenty-seven goose feathers (Yan Mao), powder them, and ingest. Goose feathers are also acceptable.

For swallowing rings, wilt leeks by sun-drying, steam them without cutting, eat one bundle; the ring will be expelled. Raw wheat leaves processed similarly are also usable; excessive consumption aids natural elimination.

For choking on swallowed copper or iron, heat copper crossbow triggers (Nu Ya) until red, immerse in wine, and drink; immediate cure.

For swallowing nails, needles, or arrowheads, eat fatty meat until full; the fat will wrap the object and expel it naturally.

For swallowing needles, take powder of suspended-needle magnetite (Xuan Zhen Ci Shi), ingest one Fang Cun Bi with water; it will be expelled.

For infantile urinary spot erysipelas (Niao Zao Dan) starting on thighs, spreading to umbilicus and glans with redness, boil two sheng of mulberry bark (Sang Pi) in two sheng of water, and bathe the infant; this is beneficial.

Another prescription: Burn plum root (Li Gen) to ash, mix with flowing field water, and apply; this is beneficial.

For infantile Zhu Tian fire erysipelas forming sores within a day and night, starting from the back and spreading like red jujubes, wash with concentrated decoction of spine tree root (Ji Gen). For formed sores,

For infantile wild fire erysipelas covering the whole body with redness, apply oil.

For infantile corn erysipelas starting on the back, spreading like a net pattern, forming sores overnight, boil adzuki beans (Chi Xiao Dou), powder them, and apply.

For infantile waste-fire erysipelas starting on the dorsum of the foot with pure red color, bathe with decoction of jujube root (Zao Gen) five or six times for self-healing.

For infantile wind-induced hidden urticaria (Feng Sao Yin Zhen) with mental confusion, boil two liang of croton seed (Ba Dou) in seven sheng of water until reduced to three sheng, soak old cloth in the juice, and wipe the affected area. Adults adjust dosage accordingly.

Another prescription: Powder two liang of alum (Fan Shi); soak in three sheng of wine until dissolved. Soak cloth and wipe the lesion.

Another prescription: Boil one sheng of evodia (Wu Zhu Yu) in five sheng of wine until reduced to one and a half sheng, soak cloth, and wipe the lesion.

For infantile urticaria entering the abdomen, with stiff body and dry tongue, ingest powder of turnip seeds (Wu Jing Zi) with wine, one Fang Cun Bi, three times daily.

Another prescription: Boil two sheng of silkworm feces (Can Sha) in two sheng of water, strain, and wash the area.

Another prescription: Wash with salt water, then apply smartweed seeds (Liao Zi).

Another prescription: Apply powder of plantain seeds (Che Qian Zi).

For all types of erysipelas, finely chop algae from ditches, cook and pound thoroughly, apply to the erysipelas with a thickness of three fen, change when dry.

Another prescription: Pound rape vegetables (Yun Tai Cai) thoroughly, apply thickly; it subsides immediately. If residual heat persists, apply continuously for three days until resolved.

For five-color oily erysipelas, tie a sow's pillow and have her lie supine; this is beneficial.

Another prescription: Apply cow dung, change when dry.

For red flowing swelling, crush hemp seeds (Huo Ma Zi), mix with water, and apply.

Another prescription: Fry sheep fat (Yang Zhi) and rub it on the area. Erysipelas with black-red color covering the whole body is fatal.

For infantile sores starting with pustules resembling burns, ripe peach kernels (Tao Ren) should be pounded, mixed with animal fat (Mian Zhi), and applied. Also treats generalized red swelling.

For sores on the infant's body, head, and face, dry elm inner bark (Yu Bai Pi), powder it, mix with vinegar, apply to cotton, and cover the sore; parasites will emerge.

For infantile erysipelas, take one handful of purslane (Ma Chi Xian), extract juice for internal use, and apply residue externally.

Another prescription: Pound five he of adzuki beans, mix with water, extract juice, ingest one he; apply residue to the five centers (palms, soles, chest).

Another prescription: Apply concentrated soybean decoction; it heals without scarring.

Another prescription: Mix December pig lard with soil from under the stove, apply, change when dry.

For infantile five-color erysipelas, apply pounded foliage of Ipomoea (Shuo Ye).

Another prescription: Boil one bunch of shallots (Xie Bai) and one sheng of fermented soybeans (Chi) in three sheng of water until reduced to two sheng; divide into three doses.

Another prescription: Boil one sheng of cypress leaves (Bo Ye) and one sheng of hemp seed powder (Ma Zi Mo) in five sheng of water for three boils; infants under 100 days take three he per dose.

Another prescription: Ingest pomegranate juice.

Another prescription: Equal parts of human hair ash (Luan Fa Hui) and deer horn ash (Lu Jiao Hui); for three-year-olds, mix with water and ingest three qian bi, twice daily.

For infantile red and white dysentery, ingest one he of fresh Rehmannia juice (Sheng Di Huang Zhi).

For infantile heat dysentery, boil quince leaves (Mu Gua Ye) and drink.

For infantile cold dysentery, extract juice from smartweed (Liao Cai) and drink according to age. Alternatively, use mustard greens.

Another prescription: Pound garlic, apply to both soles.

For infantile acute dysentery, apply adzuki bean powder mixed with wine to the soles, three times daily. Oil mixture is also acceptable.

For infantile gu-toxin dysentery, ingest one sheng and two he of indigo juice (Lan Qing), divided into four doses.

For infantile thirst dysentery, ingest quince juice (Mu Gua Zhi).

For infants with no scalp hair, apply juice from catalpa leaves (Qiu Ye).

For infantile gan sores, apply concentrated lime (Duan Shi) found at home.

For infantile impetigo (Jin Yin Chuang), mix equal parts of hearth earth (Zao Xia Huang Tu) and hair ash, combine with pig lard, and apply.

For infantile tinea (Jie Chuang), apply Chou Su mixed with Hu Fen.

For infantile wet tinea, wash with boiled horse urine.

For infantile pox entering the eyes, dry duckweed (Fu Ping) in shade, powder it, take half a raw lamb liver, crush it with a stick in a cup, submerge in half he of water, squeeze out the liver juice.

For infantile red-hot swollen eyes, mix equal parts of Rhubarb (Da Huang), alum (Bai Fan), and mirabilite (Pu Xiao) into powder, mix with cold water to form a paste, and apply as an eye mask.

For infantile double tongue (Chong She) with swelling under the tongue, dissolve mirabilite in water, apply externally to the throat; internally, hold solid chunks in the mouth until saliva flows and swelling subsides.

Another prescription: Grind ground tick (Di Pi Chong) with mint (Bo He) to extract juice, wrap in cloth, and dip/swipe the swollen double tongue.

For extreme cases, remove fingernails, first rub the vein under the tongue from tip to root, deepening the rub each time, repeating three times. Then, dip fingers in water, locate the small depression behind the neck (Yan Ke), rub the vein downwards deeply into the cavity three times. If the infant sucks milk better than before, the illness is gone.

For infantile tinea capitis and malignant sores, burn chinaberry bark (Ku Liu Pi) to ash, mix with pig lard, and apply. Also applicable for adult malignant sores.

For infantile testicular swelling or hernia (Pian Zhui), mix equal parts of Saposhnikovia root (Fang Feng) and moutan bark (Mu Dan Pi) into powder, ingest two qian bi with warm wine. Salt water is also acceptable.

For infantile sudden external fright, mix equal parts of hearth earth and earthworm feces, powder finely, mix with water, and apply to the infant's head and five centers.

Another prescription: Mix equal parts of rice flour and salt, stir-fry until color changes, and massage the abdomen.

For chronic infantile scalp sores not healing for years, collect roof dust, mix with residue from oil bottles, wash with soap pod decoction, and apply.

For infantile scalp sores, mix one liang of Hu Fen with two liang of Coptis (Huang Lian), powder them. Wash the sore, remove crust, dry, and apply; it heals. Reapply if it recurs.

For tinea capitis, apply fine powder of Lepidium seeds (Ting Li Zi) after washing.

For infantile malignant sores, fry fermented soybeans until yellow, powder, and apply; heals within three applications.

For infantile edema of hands, feet, and body, soak in warm urine; it heals.

Another prescription: Remove hearts and skins from fifty croton seeds, boil in three sheng of water until reduced to one sheng, soak cotton in the decoction, wipe the affected area; subsides immediately. Also treats hidden rashes.

For infantile rectal prolapse, moxa three cones at the center of the whorl on the vertex; the rectum will retract.

Another prescription: Moxa three cones at the coccyx (Wei Cui Gu).

Another prescription: Moxa the umbilicus, number of cones based on age.

For infantile gan sores, chew castor seeds and apply, six to seven times daily.

For infantile damp sores, bathe in concentrated decoction of Sanguisorba root (Di Yu), twice daily.

For infantile hematuria, burn magpie nest ash, ingest well water (Jing Hua Shui). Also treats bedwetting.

For infantile delayed fontanelle closure, apply pig cheekbone marrow to the fontanelle; it heals.

For infantile wind-induced hidden urticaria, ingest Achyranthes bidentata powder (Niu Xi Mo) with wine, one Fang Cun Bi. For chronic fistulas not healing for years, apply powder externally. Also treats bone abscesses, epilepsy, and scrofula (Luo Li).

For infantile fetal cold, incessant crying,惊痫 (startled epilepsy), abdominal distension, poor appetite, green-yellow stools, as well as adult deficiency-cold or excess conditions unsuitable for emesis or purgation,

For infantile five-color erysipelas, apply rotten mud from under the pig trough, change when dry, continue until healed.

Another prescription: Ingest two he of Yellow Dragon Decoction (Huang Long Tang), and apply residue to the sore.

For infantile red erysipelas, ingest three he of rape leaf juice (Yun Tai Ye Zhi), apply residue to the sore.

For infantile mottled red erysipelas, mix Hu Fen with saliva, apply from outside inward; this is beneficial.

Another prescription: Ingest powder of iron slag from forging (Duan Tie Shi) mixed with pig lard.

Another prescription: Mix roof dust with December pig lard and apply.

For infantile fire erysipelas, red like cinnabar moving in the skin, mix vinegar with pounded fermented soybeans, apply; it heals.

Another prescription: Apply pounded Perilla seeds (Ren Zi).

Another prescription: Mix pig manure with water, squeeze juice, ingest a small amount.

For infantile heavenly fire erysipelas, red like cinnabar, palm-sized, widespread, painful or itchy, apply raw sesame oil.

For infantile bone fire erysipelas where the sore exposes bone, crush small garlic, apply thickly; this occurs at the ankle.

For infantile calamity fire erysipelas appearing on flanks and axillae, mix Fulong Gan powder with oil, apply, change when dry. If it enters the abdomen or genitals, use Shen Huo...

For incessant infantile night crying unresponsive to medical treatment, burn bones from wild wolf feces to ash, ingest two grains the size of millet with water; crying stops.

Another prescription: Burn horse bone to ash, apply to the nipple; sucking stops the crying.

For infantile vomiting and diarrhea, burn special pig feces, extract juice with water, ingest small amounts; this is beneficial.

For infantile urinary and fecal retention, moxa one cone at each corner of the mouth.

Another prescription: Ingest decoction of powdered white-flowered hollyhock seeds (Bai Hua Hu Kui Zi).

Another prescription: Ingest one qian bi of chicken excrement white part (Ji Shi Bai).

Another prescription: Moxa one inch below the umbilicus, three cones. Also moxa the transverse crease one hundred cones. Also moxa one cone at each corner of the mouth.

For infantile warm malaria, ingest one qian bi of deer horn powder (Lu Jiao Mo) before the onset of fever.

Another prescription: Moxa three cones one finger-breadth below each nipple.

For infantile profuse watery diarrhea, ingest warm juice of two sheng of Tribulus seeds (Ji Li Zi) until cured.

Another prescription: Ingest quince juice.

Another prescription: Ingest powder of stir-fried stored rice.

Another prescription: Ingest half a qian bi of sour pomegranate ash, three times daily.

Another prescription: Stir-fry fermented soybeans until charred,淋 (drip/strain) water through them to get juice, ingest; highly effective. If cold, use wine.

For infantile red-white stagnant dysentery, boil one bunch of shallots and one sheng of fermented soybeans in three sheng of water until reduced to one sheng; divide into three doses.

Another prescription: Boil one sheng of cypress leaves and one sheng of hemp seed powder in five sheng of water for three boils; infants under 100 days take three he per dose.

Another prescription: Ingest pomegranate juice.

Another prescription: Equal parts of human hair ash and deer horn ash; for three-year-olds, mix with water and ingest three qian bi, twice daily.