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The song in "Xing Zheng Lun" states: Dysentery with five colors has the most diverse causes; seeing this symptom indicates there are five distinct types. Green color is solely due to fright accumulation (Jing Ji Ju); yellow is mostly food stagnation within the Spleen; white is caused by cold deficiency affecting the intestines and stomach; red is due to accumulated heat, making it difficult to stabilize; chicken liver color (purple-black) implies hidden accumulation often forming clumps; black blood mixed with stasis is also hard to settle. If accompanied by lip twitching, chest distension, exposed teeth, facial redness, and visible meridians, these usually appear at the beginning of the disease. Urgently soothe the Zang-Fu organs and administer He Tang San (Harmonizing Decoction); physicians should pay attention to the methods of ancient sages.

Another song states: Do not consider dysentery with five colors strange; it begins to occur in children before four years old. Green is solely due to fright accumulation; yellow is due to food stagnation toxins in the Spleen; red and black indicate Heart and Kidney pathology; white is mostly harm to the Spleen. Before the age of twenty-one (3x7), there is no change; do not allow excessive sleep, and delay feeding and drinking. For this disease, one must harmonize the Five Zang organs and tonify Ying and Wei (Nutritive and Defensive Qi) for gradual recovery. If eyes are swollen and appetite is lost (Yang considers this a bad omen), only administer Tiao Wei San (Stomach-Regulating Powder) to tonify.

Mr. Wang from Handong's Decoction and Pills treat pediatric diarrhea and dysentery, where excrement resembles rotten fish intestines with five-colored pus and blood, without normal stool, only pus and blood, causing churning pain in the intestines.

Ingredients: Fen Shuang (Calomel), Qing Fen (Calomel), Sha (Realgar, each 1 qian), Zhu Sha (Cinnabar, measured with a scoop as 1 qian bi), Bai Ding Xiang (Stolex, measured with a spoon as 4 qian), Ru Xiang (Frankincense, 0.5 qian, separately ground), Ba Dou (Croton Seed, 7 grains, peeled and cored, without releasing oil).

Grind the above into powder, and form pills using steamed jujube flesh. For infants, take 3 pills the size of millet seeds; for children aged 2-3, the size of hemp seeds; for ages 4-5, the size of sesame seeds. Prepare fresh for each dose, swallow with decocted water, twice a day, interspersed with administration of Stomach-Qi regulating medicines.

Formula for internal treatment among the thirty-six types, for five-colored foul matter and incessant mental restlessness and heat:

Ingredients: Di Yu (Sanguisorba Root), Bai Fu Ling (Poria), Huang Bo (Phellodendron Bark, processed with heat, each 1 liang).

Grind the above into powder. Take 1 qian per dose, add one cup of water, decoct until reduced to half a cup, remove dregs, and divide into three doses.

San Shuang Wan (Three Frost Pills) treats pediatric red-white or five-colored stagnant dysentery.

Ingredients: Ba Dou (Croton Seed, peeled, selected for white and plump quality, 3 qian, finely ground, first wrapped in white silk cloth 30-20 layers thick, then wrapped in white paper outside, pressed with a large stone until oil is exhausted, use the remaining 2 qian of lighter material), Zhen Qing Fen (Pure Calomel), Fen Shuang (Calomel, each 2 qian).

Grind the above three ingredients together until extremely fine. Separately take 3 qian of good yellow beeswax, boil in wine for 30-20 boils, remove, drain the wine completely, melt again, and mix with the medicine. Beeswax previously boiled in wine can also be used. Form into a paste, store in oiled paper. When needed, roll into pills the size of small mung beans.

For children under three years old, size of millet seeds, take 3-5 pills per dose, swallow with warm cooked water, adjust dosage according to the child's size.

"Ji Family Collection" formula for five-colored dysentery with incessant thirst:

Ingredients: Fu Ling (Poria), Xuan Huang Lian (Scutellaria Root from Xuan), Huang Bo (Phellodendron Bark, equal parts).

Take the Huang Bo powder, mix with Jiang Shui (fermented grain liquid) to form a paste like flour dough, let stand for a while, then mix with the other two ingredients to form pills the size of mung beans. For three-year-olds, swallow seven pills with rice drink. To eliminate parasites and treat malnutrition (Gan), swallow five pills with cooked water.

Zhi Sheng Wan (Supreme Sage Pill) treats five-colored dysentery.

Ingredients: Hou Po (Magnolia Bark, peeled, ginger-processed), Huang Bo (Phellodendron Bark, slightly peeled, coated with egg white and roasted until yellow and cooked, re-coat if dry), Dang Gui (Angelica Sinensis, soaked in wine).

Take the above three ingredients in equal parts, grind into fine powder, and form pills using refined honey, the size of Sophora seeds. For children, make smaller pills. Swallow forty pills per dose with Hou Po decoction, adjust as needed.

Ding Fen San (Fixed Powder Powder) treats Gan dysentery and five-colored dysentery.

Ingredients: Ding Fen (Lead Carbonate), Long Gu (Fossilized Bones), Huang Dan (Minium, calcined, each 2 qian), He Zi (Chebula Fruit, three pieces, roasted until cooked, take the flesh).

Grind the above into powder. Take 0.5 qian per dose, swallow with gruel drink; for children over three years old, take 0.5 qian.