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Method for Advancing the Parturient Woman
(Text omitted. Its content involves calculating the auspicious and inauspicious directions for placing the parturient woman's bed, sleeping position, defecation and urination areas, and disposal of wastewater, based on her age—from thirteen to forty-nine years old.)

Daily Sun Diagram
Method for Calculating the Daily Sun
(Diagram and text both omitted. Its content involves calculating the days when the parturient woman should avoid the "Daily Sun Deity".)

Twelve-Month Birth Diagram
(Both diagram and text are omitted. Its content concerns the auspicious and inauspicious directions for safe delivery and storing the placenta during the twelve months of the year.)

Ti Xuanzi's Method of Borrowing Earth
(Text omitted. Its content consists of incantations.)

Method for Safe Delivery and Storing the Placenta
(Text omitted. Its content concerns the auspicious directions for safe delivery and storing the placenta.)

Color of the Parturient Woman's Clothing and the Method for the Day of Raising the First Finger
(Text omitted. Its content concerns the auspicious clothing colors and sleeping directions suitable for childbirth.)

Discussion: The so-called malpresentation (Ni Chan) generally occurs because, when a pregnant woman first feels abdominal pain before the actual time of delivery, the disturbance frightens the fetus, causing it to turn but not complete the rotation. If force is then applied to deliver, malpresentation results. Alternatively, if the place of delivery, as well as sitting and lying positions, do not conform to the directions of the four seasons and fail to avoid Five Elements taboos,触犯 (violation) often leads to disaster.

For treating difficult labor lasting several days, or abnormal presentation where conventional methods have failed to ensure safety, urgently administer this medicine. Upon administration, the infant will be born immediately. If taken from the full month of pregnancy, delivery will be easier, and the birth may pass unnoticed. Butter Paste Formula
True Beef Butter (1 jin), Autumn Okra Seeds (1 sheng), White Honey (0.5 jin), Soybean Yellow Sprouts (2 liang), Talcum Powder (ground into powder, 2 liang), Dianthera Herba (Qumai).
The above six ingredients: First, grind the first four ingredients into powder. Then, take the beef butter and melt it over low heat. Add honey and stir evenly. Add the medicinal powder and mix thoroughly. Store in a porcelain container. Take one spoonful each time, mixed with warm wine. Dosage can be increased to two spoonfuls.

For treating transverse presentation and breech presentation, fetal death in utero, retention of the placenta, and maternal exhaustion approaching collapse. Pinellia Powder Formula
Pinellia Rhizome (ground into powder, made into cakes with fresh ginger juice, dried, 0.5 liang), Ampelopsis Radix (Bailian, 1 liang).
The above two ingredients: Pound and sieve into a powder. Take 2 qianbi each time, mixed with warm wine. For difficult labor, take once; for transverse presentation, take twice; for breech presentation, take three times; for fetal death with retained placenta, take four times. This formula is more effective if 1 liang of Dianthera Herba (Qumai) is added and decocted.

For treating irregular malpresentation. Wheat Drink Formula
Wheat, Adzuki Beans (each selected clean and stir-fried).
The above two ingredients in equal parts: Coarsely crush and sieve. Take 3 qianbi each time, with one cup of water, decoct until reduced to 70%, remove dregs, and take warm.

For treating women with transverse or breech presentation, dead fetus in the abdomen causing bloating and putrefaction without expulsion, to promote delivery. Oak Leaf Drink Formula
Oak Leaves (one handful, cut finely), Licorice Root (one stem, length of a fist, broken like a little finger).
The above two ingredients: Decoct with 3.5 sheng of water over low heat until reduced to 1.5 sheng. Remove dregs and store in a porcelain bottle, sealing the mouth with paper. Place in the delivery room and keep warm over low heat. Take one small cup first. When the chest feels comfortable, take another small cup. Regardless of the number of doses, within three to four cups, foul matter will be discharged. This is very effective for routine induction of labor.

For treating transverse or breech presentation, fetal death in utero, and retention of the placenta. Wujin San Formula
Angelica Sinensis Radix (Danggui, soaked in wine, sliced, and roasted), Myrrh (Moyao, ground separately), Prepared Rehmanniae Radix (Sheng Gan Dihuang, roasted), Coptidis Rhizoma (Puhuang, used raw), Paeoniae Radix (Shaoyao, stir-fried), Carthami Flos (Honglanhua, stir-fried). [Note: Text seems truncated here, listing 9 ingredients total including Blood Charcoal and Carp Scales mentioned later].
The above nine ingredients: Take Human Hair Charcoal (Xueyu) and Carp Scales, burn them to ash in a silver-lined pot using charcoal fire. Grind Myrrh separately. Pound and sieve the remaining herbs into powder and mix evenly. Take 2 qianbi each time, mixed with warm wine, at any time.

For treating difficult labor lasting three to four days, or transverse/breech presentation leading to critical condition. Huatai Jian Formula
Dianthera Herba (Qumai, taking the spikes, 1 liang), Butter (5 liang), Talcum Powder, Okra Seeds (Kui Zi, each 2 liang), Black Bean Skin (1 he), White Honey (4 liang), Achyranthes Bidentata Root (Niuxi).
The above seven ingredients: Except for butter and honey, pound and sieve into powder. Melt butter and honey, add the medicinal powders and 5 liang of cow milk, decoct into a liquid. Store in a porcelain vessel. Take half a spoonful each time, dissolved in warm wine or hot water, at any time.

For treating transverse or breech presentation, to calm the fetus. Suanjiang Yin Formula
Five-leaf Sorrel (Wu Ye Suan Jiang Cao), amount unspecified.
Take the natural juice of this single ingredient, half a cup, mixed with half a cup of wine and half a qianbi of red dye powder. Mix evenly and drink warm. If ineffective, take again.

Methods for Treating Malpresentation
Garlic (seven cloves, peeled), Ginger (0.5 liang), Scallion White (remove green parts, thirty stalks, each crushed).
Place the above three ingredients in a basin. Pour five bowls of boiling water into the basin while hot. Quickly help the parturient woman sit over the basin. Replace the water when it cools. After changing three times, the fetus will assume the correct position.

Another Method
Take fine yellow earth from the center of the stove bottom (5 he), decoct with ginger juice until hot, mix into a paste, apply to the mother's umbilicus, and tie with a hot cloth, changing frequently.

Another Method
Mix salt and Chinese lead white (Hufen) with vinegar, apply to the soles of the infant's feet, and the presentation will become normal.

Another Method
Mix Puhuang (Coptidis Rhizoma/Pollen Typhae - *Note: Context suggests Pollen Typhae usually, but text says Qumai earlier, here just Puhuang*) with water, apply to the soles of the infant's feet.

Another Method
Take half a qianbi of Cinnabar powder, mix with honey, apply to the soles of the infant's feet. Also, use a Cinnabar brush to write the character "Qian" (Thousand) on the left sole and "Li" (Inside/Travel) on the right sole, and the presentation will become normal.

Another Method
Take salt from three families, fry until yellow, grind into powder, mix with saliva, apply to the soles of the infant's feet. Then take rice from three families and place it in the parturient woman's hand.

Another Method
Write the father's name on the soles of the infant's feet, and the presentation will become normal.

Another Method
Take grease from the cart wheel hub, write the character "Chu" (Exit) on the soles of the infant's feet.

Another Method
Prick the sole of the infant's foot that emerges first with a needle. The pain and fright will cause the infant to retract and turn normal. If the hands emerge first, use the same method on the feet.

Another Method
Use the middle finger to take soot from the bottom of the cauldron, cross-write on the soles of the infant's feet, and the presentation will become normal.

Ai Ye Tang Formula for Treating Malpresentation and Fetal Death in Utero
Fresh Mugwort (Wormwood Leaf, 5 liang).
Decoct this single ingredient in one sheng of clear wine until 0.7 sheng remains. Take immediately to normalize presentation. If alcohol is not consumed, decoct with water instead.

Another Formula
Hemp Seed (Huomaren, cleaned and pounded to pulp, 0.5 liang).
Decoct this single ingredient in two cups of water until one cup remains. Remove dregs and take warm.

Another Formula
Take ox saliva, wring out, and mix with warm wine to take.

Another Formula
Burn seven coins until red-hot, drop them into one cup of wine, remove the coins, and drink.

Another Formula
Sunflower (or dried sunflower seeds, 3 liang).
Pound and sieve into powder. Take 2 qianbi each time, mixed with warm wine.

Another Formula
Take soil from the rim of a cart wheel, pinch with three fingers, mix with warm wine, and take.

Another Formula
Take black dust from the kitchen roof, take 2 qianbi mixed with warm wine.

Another Formula
Take two marble-sized stones, pound and sieve into powder, take 2 qianbi mixed with warm wine.

Another Formula
Take the strap of a steamer, burn to ash, grind into powder, take 2 qianbi mixed with warm wine.

Another Formula
Take snake skin, burn to ash, grind into powder, take 1 qianbi mixed with warm wine, facing east. Another variant: Take snake skin ash. Make pills with pork lard the size of Sophora seeds. Take five pills each time, swallow facing east.

Another Formula
Take a piece of paper from late silkworm breeding, burn to ash, grind into powder, mix with rice water to take.

Another Formula
Take ten fingernails of the husband, burn to ash, grind into powder, mix with warm wine to take.

Another Formula
Take a pinch of dust from the beams, mix with warm wine to take.

Another Formula
Take Dodder Seeds (Tusizi), grind into powder, take 2 qianbi mixed with warm wine.

Another Formula
Take Plantago Seed (Cheqianzi), grind into powder, take 2 qianbi mixed with warm wine.

Another Formula
Angelica Sinensis Radix (Danggui, sliced and roasted, 1 liang).
Pound and sieve into powder. Take 2 qianbi each time, mixed with warm wine.

Another Formula
Soybeans (5 he).
Decoct this single ingredient in 2 sheng of vinegar until reduced by half. Divide into warm doses to take.