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Prescription transmitted by Ma Mianshu.
Chuan Huanglian (Rhizoma Coptidis), Wuyiren (Fructus Trogopterori), Mai Fu (Furfur Tritici, stir-fried), Shenqu (Massa Medicata Fermentata, stir-fried, each 1 liang).
Grind the above into a fine powder. Use fresh pig bile and wheat paste to make pills, sized like hemp seeds or beans. Take 5 pills per dose, swallowed with rice water, taken before meals.

Prescription from Qian Jihua.
Chuan Huanglian (Rhizoma Coptidis), Houpo (Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis), Wu Zhu Yu (Fructus Evodiae, each 1 liang). These are soaked overnight with 1 liang of crushed fresh ginger, then stir-fried until fragrant and cooked through.
Grind the above into a fine powder. Make pills with wheat paste, sized like Sophora seeds. Take 100 pills with aged rice water; taking them with millet water is even better. For children, make smaller pills sized like broomcorn millet.
If diarrhea is severe, add one Roudoukou (Nucis Arecae Semina) and two Meishizi (Galla Chinensis).

Treating improper breastfeeding in infants, imbalance of cold and heat, where heat rushes to the upper diaphragm and cold settles in the lower jiao, resulting in uneven deficiency and excess, and inability to digest water and grain. Deficiency of Stomach Qi leads to vomiting; deficiency of Spleen Qi leads to diarrhea and dysentery; combined with food stagnation, it transforms into dysentery with pus and blood. Generally, the Spleen and Stomach require careful regulation in daily life.
Danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis), Muxiang (Radix Aucklandiae), Baizhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, each 0.5 liang); Chenxiang (Lignum Aquilariae Resinatum), Baishaoyao (Radix Paeoniae Alba), Renshen (Radix Ginseng), Peng Ezhu (Rhizoma Curcumae Phaeocaulis), Suosharen (Fructus Amomi Rotundus, each 2.5 qian).
Grind the above into a fine powder. Make pills with wheat paste, sized like broomcorn millet. Take 10 to 20 pills per dose, delivered with rice water, adjusting the dosage according to the child's age and size.

Danggui Wan for treating infantile food stagnation, intestinal distension, and food injury, provided by Physician Ding of Chuzhou. Select Yuanhua (Flos Genkwa) before it blooms, harvest it promptly, dry it in the sun, remove branches and stems. Soak the herbs in light rice vinegar or sugar vinegar, with the vinegar level one finger-width above the herbs. Leave overnight, then take out and stir continuously until the vinegar flow stops. Cover with a bowl, wait for it to cool, pour out, bake dry, and grind into a fine powder. Then use the vinegar used to soak the herbs to make a hard paste for forming pills, sized like millet. Re-administer after about an hour. The internal organs will definitely react; stop after one or two bowel movements. It works very quickly without causing harm. If one wishes to rapidly eliminate Spleen and Stomach stagnation, administer with sugar water or Perilla decoction. The vinegar used for making the paste must be clarified; if insufficient, adding other vinegars is acceptable. Additionally, make larger pills sized like mung beans to treat adults injured by alcohol and food. Adjust the number of pills according to the condition, administering based on deficiency or excess. Physician Guo of Luzhou stated: Yuanhua, Haizao, Gansui, and Daji all counteract Gancao. After taking this medicine, avoid other medicines for one day. Once the internal organs have moved, nourish with white porridge.