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Shenting (EX-HN2, located 0.5 cun above the anterior hairline on the midline.)
Baihui (GV20, located at the apex of the head.)
Xinhui (GV22, located 1 cun posterior to Shangxing GV23.)
Changqiang (GV1, located at the tip of the coccyx.)
Moxibustion should be applied according to appropriate acupoint selection; use moxa cones the size of a wheat grain, three moxa cones per acupoint will result in cure.

*Leicui* states: Pediatric Shanghan (Cold Damage) is no different from that in adults; the only difference lies in the frequent co-occurrence of food stagnation. Regardless of whether one or two syndromes are present, neither the syndrome differentiation nor the prescription exceeds the principles established by Zhang Zhongjing and Zhu Danxi; the distinction is merely in dosage magnitude. Treatment should cease once the medicine targets the pathogen. According to Zhang Zhongjing's *Shanghan Lun*: The Qi of spring is mild and harmonious; the Qi of summer is hot and sultry; the Qi of autumn is cool and clear; the Qi of winter is cold and piercing. This constitutes the normal sequence of the four seasons. Only during the severe cold of winter, if one avoids cold and seeks warmth, will illness not occur. If one accidentally contracts wind-cold, it is termed "Shang" (Injury). If cold is contracted in winter but latent in the skin and muscles without immediate onset, and manifests in spring, it is called Wenbing (Warm Disease); if it manifests in summer, it is called Rebing (Heat Disease). By this time, the winter-latent cold has transformed with the Qi of spring and summer; after the disease has persisted for some time, it can no longer be referred to as cold. Thus, it is said: Patients with Warm Disease do not exhibit aversion to cold, which clarifies the rationale. If spring should be warm but is instead cold; summer should be hot but is instead cool; autumn should be cool but is instead hot; winter should be cold but is instead warm—this phenomenon where the season does not match the climate is termed the chaotic Qi of the four seasons. Accidental contraction of this pathogen is termed Shiqi (Seasonal Pathogen), which differs from Shanghan. If infants in swaddling clothes, or older children with congenital weakness, contract this due to their wet nurses exposing themselves to wind and cold without protection, it occurs. However, when children suffer from this, they cannot verbally describe the cause of illness, and pulse diagnosis alone cannot fully reveal the inevitable pathology; they simply manifest irritability, crying, and fever. Therefore, physicians must exert utmost care. Upon initial onset, for infants, redness of the pulse pattern at the Three Passages of the Tiger's Mouth is used for verification. For older toddlers, palpating the Cun, Guan, and Chi positions with one finger, judging based on the tight and vigorous pulse on the left hand, accompanied by panting, aversion to cold, heart Qi heat, yawning, sudden chest stuffiness, and neck stiffness, indicates the condition. Those who fear cold and wind, preferring to hide indoors, curl up, and tightly cover themselves with clothes, present a Biao Syndrome (Exterior Syndrome). Those who fear heat and have interior excess, preferring to expose their heads and faces, wave hands and kick feet, feel irritable and thirsty, have dry stools, push away covers, and breathe heavily, present a Li Syndrome (Interior Syndrome). Regarding cases with cold sweat on the forehead and temples, cold limbs, cold breath, dark and pale complexion, and green watery diarrhea, these constitute Yin Syndromes. Observing whether urine is red or white reveals the presence or absence of interior heat; observing whether urine is clear or turbid reveals the severity of the interior condition. From these observations, methods such as sweating, purging, clearing heat, and warming can be inferred by analogy.