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For pediatric gan eye disease (malnutrition with eye involvement), moxa the Hegu (LI4) acupoint on both sides, one mound each. The method for locating this point: it is located in the depression between the two bones of the thumb and index finger of the hand.

For pediatric gan dysentery, rectal prolapse, emaciation, thirst with drinking, haggard appearance, when various treatments fail to cure, moxa the depression between the bones three cun above the coccyx, three mounds. Qibo stated: combine with the Sanfu days (Dog Days). Internally, decoct peach branches and willow branches to bathe the child at noon; after moxibustion on that day, wipe with clean silk cloth, sometimes resembling gan worms are discharged with sweat. This method is miraculous.

For pediatric emaciation, poor appetite, failure to gain muscle mass, moxa the Weishu (BL21) acupoint on both sides, one mound each. The method for locating this point: it is located in the depression 1.5 cun lateral to the spinous process of the twelfth thoracic vertebra.

The Mai Jing (Pulse Classic) states: If a child's pulse is deep and rapid, there is heat in the bones; one desires to press the abdomen to perceive coldness. ○ The Nan Jing (Classic of Difficult Issues) states: For heat diseases, the yin and yang pulses are both floating; superficial palpation feels slippery, while deep palpation feels scattered and choppy. ○ The Mai Jue Meng Qi (Enlightenment of Pulse Secrets) states: A child's pulse beating eight or nine times per respiration indicates fever. ○ Floating, large, and rapid pulses indicate wind-heat.

The Quan Ying Fang Lun (Treatise on Formulas for Infants) states: Generally, human fever must arise by riding upon yang pathogenic factors. The classic states: Where pathogenic factors gather, qi is necessarily deficient; if they remain and do not depart, the disease becomes excess. Pathogenic and righteous qi contend, external pathogens clash with the skin, causing either恍惚 (trance-like crying) or stifled confusion with coarse breathing; its variations are numerous. It may be in the exterior, in the interior, appear like excess, appear like deficiency, be half-exterior and half-interior, or half-excess and half-deficiency. Basically, because children possess pure yang constitution, internal organs generate heat, yin and yang qi transform and steam outward, causing body heat. Liver heat causes red and painful eyes, tearing, photophobia, or formation of corneal opacities; Heart heat causes sores in the mouth, red and swollen urine, dribbling obstruction; Lung heat causes persistent epistaxis, constipation; Spleen heat causes excessive saliva and drooling from the mouth; Heart-Spleen heat causes double tongue and wooden tongue; Stomach heat causes foul breath; Kidney heat causes deafness or discharge of pus. As for wind-heat toxic vapors accumulated in the five zang organs, it causes the face to turn red like crimson, five-palm heat, warmth of the four limbs, phlegm-saliva congestion, dry eyes and excessive thirst. If it rushes upward to the throat, it clashes with blood and qi, accumulating and congesting to form throat closure (hou bi), which is critical within moments. The Ci Re Pian (Acupuncture for Heat Chapter) of Nei Jing states: Patients with Spleen heat disease have redness first appearing on the left cheek; patients with Heart heat disease have redness first appearing on the forehead; patients with Lung heat disease have redness first appearing on the nose; patients with Liver heat disease have redness first appearing on the right cheek; patients with Kidney heat disease have redness first appearing on the chin. Although the disease has not yet manifested, seeing redness warrants acupuncture, called treating before disease arises. The heat governed by each of the five zang organs is different and cannot be generalized. Broadly speaking, heat generates wind, and wind generates palpitations (ji).