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To treat infants and children with excessive Yin and deficient Yang, deficiency-cold of the Zang-Fu organs, and intractable diarrhea due to deficiency-cold, the Qisheng Ji Ji Dan (Miraculous Sage Equilibrium Pill) is an excellent prescription:
Shu Dihuang (Prepared Rehmanniae Radix, 1 fen) Bai Fan (Alumen) Banxia Mo (Pinelliae Rhizoma powder, prepared by soaking 2 qian of Banxia in fresh ginger juice for half a day, then drying and weighing).
Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, form pills the size of snow cream, take 30-50 pills per dose, and swallow with warm rice gruel.

To treat infants and children with deficiency-cold of the Zang-Fu organs, profuse watery diarrhea, and cold extremities, the Zhufu Tang (Aconite and Atractylodes Decoction) is used:
Fuzi (Processed Aconiti Lateralis Radix, half a piece) Baizhu (Atractodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma, 1 fen) Ganjiang (Dried Zingiberis Rhizoma, 2 qian, processed) Gancao (Prepared Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, 1 qian, honey-fried).
Chop the above ingredients, take 1 qian per dose, decoct in one small cup of water until reduced to half a cup, remove the dregs, and administer. This should only be administered when the child has profuse watery diarrhea and cold hands and feet.

The aforementioned symptoms were described earlier; now excellent prescriptions are provided to restore health regarding these conditions. For vomiting caused by wind obstruction, it resembles phlegm-vomiting and should be treated accordingly; for vomiting due to stomach-cold qi reversal, it resembles stomach-cold vomiting and should be regulated according to this principle; for vomiting due to fright, it resembles heat-vomiting; for vomiting due to food stagnation, it resembles cold-vomiting; for vomiting due to qi rebellion, it resembles food-intake vomiting and should be treated accordingly.

To treat infants and young children with spleen deficiency and weak stomach, wind-phlegm in the diaphragm, where all food and drink entering the mouth are vomited or retched, emaciation, fatigue, inability to eat, cholera-like vomiting and diarrhea, absent-mindedness, chest and epigastric distension, and disharmony of the Zhongwan (Middle Jiao), the Babai Yin (Eight Whites Drink) is prescribed:
Chenxiang (Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum) Huoxiang Ye (Agastachis Herba) Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma) Caoguo (Tsao-ko Fructus) Baichuan Jiang (Prepared Zingiberis Officinalis Rhizoma) Banxia Qu (Pinelliae Fermentum) Baishaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Alba) Baibinglang (Arecae Semen) Baidoukou (Amomi Fructus Rotundus) Baifuling (Poria) Baizhu (Atractodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) Baibiandou (Favae Semen, stir-fried) Baizhi (Angelicae Dahuricae Radix).
Grind the above ingredients into equal parts of fine powder. If vomiting recurs after diarrhea, or diarrhea recurs after vomiting, take 1 qian per dose, decoct in one small cup of water with two small slices of fresh ginger and half a jujube, boil for three to five minutes, and drink through the mouth at any time without restriction.

To treat infants and young children with fright-vomiting and heat-vomiting, characterized by mental restlessness and confusion, disharmony of the Zhongwan (Middle Jiao), gradually progressing to fear and palpitations, and absent-minded instability, the Ren Shen Wenzhong Wan (Ginseng Middle-Warming Pill) is an excellent prescription:
Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma) Baizhu (Atractodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) Baifuling (Poria) Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma, washed seven times with hot water) Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium) Roudoukou (Myristicae Semen, baked).
Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, mix with paste from steamed Huai Zao (Chinese Jujube flesh) to form pills the size of hemp seeds, coat with Cinnabar (Zhusha), and take 30-50 pills with Huoxiang Shengjiang Tang (Agastache and Fresh Ginger Decoction) at any time. There is no need to worry if taken in larger amounts.

To treat infants and young children with disharmony of the Zhongwan (Middle Jiao), abnormal rising of turbid qi, stomach cold injuring heat, rebellious vomiting, irritability, mental fatigue, weakness, poor appetite, debility with desire to sleep but restless sleep, the Tiaozhong Zhengwei San (Regulating Middle and Rectifying Stomach Powder) is prescribed:
(When added with Muxiang, it is named Muxiang San)
Huoxiang Ye (Agastachis Herba) Baizhu (Atractodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma) Baifuling (Poria) Gancao (Prepared Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, honey-fried) Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium, pith removed) Shanyao (Dioscoreae Rhizoma) Baibiandou (Favae Semen, stir-fried) Banxia Qu (Pinelliae Fermentum) Chuan Baijiang (Zingiberis Officinalis Rhizoma).
Grind the above ingredients into equal parts of fine powder. Take 1 qian per dose, decoct in one small cup of water with two small slices of fresh ginger and half a jujube, boil for two or three minutes, and administer.