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Treats indigestion of milk and food, resulting in fullness and distension of the heart and abdomen, high fever with rapid and coarse breathing, vomiting of phlegm and rebellious qi, borborygmus, diarrhea, and undigested food in stool; or dysentery with abdominal pain and tenesmus (a feeling of incomplete defecation), as well as food stagnation masses, lactation abnormalities, qi obstruction, and accumulation. All these conditions are treated.

Dai Zhe Shi (Hematitum, calcined and quenched in vinegar, ground) [Note: Original text lists "Dai Zhe Shi" but context implies it might be part of a formula for infantile malnutrition/stagnation, often associated with other herbs like Dang Gui, Zhu Sha, Zhi Ke. The text provided seems to be a fragment or specific preparation method].
Dang Gui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis, remove radix tip, slightly stir-fried)
Zhu Sha (Cinnabaris, ground and floated)
Zhi Ke (Fructus Aurantii, remove pith, stir-fried with bran until slightly yellow)

Crush the above herbs, sieve into powder, mix evenly with the ground medicines, bind with wheat paste to make pills the size of hemp seeds. For each year of age, administer one pill, taken down with warm rice water. Adjust dosage according to deficiency or excess, take after meals.

Treats pediatric wind-phlegm heat causing restless mind, palpitations, irritability, thirst, dry lips, red cheeks, restless sleep at night, delirium, and madness.

Zi He Che (Placenta Hominis, boiled soft with black soybeans, sliced, dried, 25 liang)
Shan Yao (Rhizoma Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae, 150 liang)
Ya Xiao (Natrii Sulfas, sublimed/dried, 15 liang)
Bing Pian (Borneolum Syntheticum, ground... [Text fragment])

Grind into fine powder, bind with refined honey to make pills. Each 1.5 liang of powder makes 50 pills, coated with gold foil. Take one pill per dose, dissolve in mint tea or allow to melt in the mouth. Take after meals or before bedtime. Regular use calms and anchors the mind, dissipates pathogenic heat, cools the throat and chest, and stops crying from fright.

Treats pediatric convulsions (Jing Feng) with body heat, rapid/coarse breathing, cough with saliva/phlegm, palpitations, red cheeks, difficulty in urination and defecation, and unstable sleep at night.

Hua Shi (Talcum, 15 liang)
Ni Fen (Calomelas, ground, 15 liang) [Note: Ni Fen is toxic, used historically]
Qing Dai (Indigo Naturalis, ground, 2.5 liang)
Tian Nan Xing (Rhizoma Arisaematis, processed, 12.5 liang)
Ba Dou (Semen Crotonis, 7... [Text fragment])

Grind into fine powder, bind with wheat paste to make pills the size of hemp seeds. For each year of age, administer one pill, taken down with mint-warm water. In cases of acute convulsions characterized by heat in the head and cold in the feet, locked jaw, blue-green face, muscle spasms, and stubborn phlegm in the upper jiao, increase by one or two pills, taken with Tao Fu Tang (Peach Charm Decoction) to promote downward movement of accumulated toxic heat and phlegm, leading to immediate recovery. Suitable for residual toxins after chickenpox/smallpox, take after meals.

Treats pediatric imbalance of cold and heat, diarrhea, irritability, thirst, undigested food, abdominal pain, and borborygmus; or dysentery with pus and blood, tenesmus, loss of appetite for milk/food, emaciation, gradually developing into Gan syndrome (infantile malnutrition).

Bai Shi Zhi (Halloysitum Rubrum, 0.5 liang)
Long Gu (Os Draconis, 0.5 liang)
Gan Jiang (Rhizoma Zingiberis Preparatum, processed, 0.5 liang)
Huang Lian (Rhizoma Coptidis, remove rootlets, slightly stir-fried, 0.5 liang)
Bai Fan (Alumen, ... [Text fragment], 0.5 liang)

Crush the above herbs, sieve into powder, bind with wheat paste cooked in vinegar to make pills the size of hemp seeds. For each year of age, administer ten pills, taken down with rice water. Take before milk/food intake. If there is irritability and thirst, take with Ren Shen Tang (Ginseng Decoction). Adjust dosage based on the child's size and condition, administer three to four times daily.