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Take one pill of Jiuyao (Fermented Medicinal Pill), cut it open, and use half a pill along with several green onion heads with roots intact. Pound them into a paste, forming a depression in the center resembling a persimmon cake. Add a few drops of sesame oil into the depression, place it in a new clay pot, and simmer over slow fire until thoroughly heated. Remove it, spread it on cloth to form a plaster-like consistency. Place two pieces of Juncus effusus (rush pith) in a cross shape on the infant's umbilicus, and paste the plaster in the middle. Within the time it takes to eat a meal, the wind, heat, cold, and stagnation pathogens will be discharged, and the patient will recover.

Apply powder of Tu Xin Tu (Caulis Cinnamomi / Hearth Soil) externally. Alternatively, burn Portulaca oleracea (Ma Chi Xian) to ash and apply with water or oil.

Cases where the umbilical cord has not yet fallen off are difficult to treat. Take a piece of fresh Morus alba bark (Xiang Sang Pi) (peel off the old bark), mix with one liang of Fagopyrum esculentum flour (Qiao Mian), knead with water to form a ring surrounding the umbilicus. Cover the ring with the mulberry bark, and perform moxibustion with seven moxa cones (Zhuang). If sweat appears on the mulberry bark, the disease will be cured.

Take one sheep urinary bladder, inflate it and dry it in the shade. Fill it with several liang of top-quality Fenjiu (Fen Wine) or good Sha jiu (Baijiu), weigh accurately, tie the mouth tightly with thread, and hang it between the heart region and the epigastrium (must hang directly against the skin). For severe cases of Gan syndrome (malnutrition due to parasitic infection or poor digestion), within a few hours, the wine level will naturally decrease. Replace with fresh wine. Repeat this process several times until the weight of the wine no longer decreases; at this point, the illness will be cured. (This formula also treats intestinal parasites in adults.)

Use Da Gan Cao (Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata) 1 liang 2 qian, add six bowls of water, decoct until three bowls remain. Drink the entire amount to achieve recovery.

Apply powder of Ku Fan (Alumen) externally, or apply powder of Huang Bo (Cortex Phellodendri). If bleeding occurs, apply powder of Bai Shi Zhi (Halloysitum Rubrum); if ineffective, lightly stir-fry the powder (allow to cool before applying).

One zhong of fried Sesame indicum seeds (Zhi Ma), mixed with 2 fen of Xiong Huang (Realgar) powder, taken with boiled water. After three days, consume only sesame seeds alone. If symptoms cease and the child craves eating wall soil, decoct Huang Lian (Rhizoma Coptidis) juice and mix with wall soil powder to make cakes for consumption.

Three spoons of juice from Platycladi Cacumen (Ce Bai Ye) grown in shaded areas, three spoons of raw honey, and three small cups of well water, mixed and administered orally.

Apply Qing Fen (Calomel) mixed with Tong You (Tung Oil) to the affected area.

Apply chicken manure to the infant's umbilicus (use male chicken manure for boys, female chicken manure for girls), or use grass from a chicken coop, or place dried cow dung under the mat.

Remove the mouthparts of Bai Jiang Can (Bombyx Batryticatus), grind into powder, decoct in water, and wash the affected area.

For swelling of the fontanelle, apply Huang Bo (Cortex Phellodendri) powder mixed with water as a patch to both soles of the feet.

Apply earthworm mud to the fontanelle; replace when dry. Alternatively, steam Chuan Lian (Fructus Toosendan) with human milk and apply locally.

Burn tangled hair to ash, mix with Zhu You (Porcine Fat), and apply. Alternatively, bake Wu Bei Zi (Galla Chinensis) until dry, grind into powder, and apply (also treats adults).