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Treats children suffering from "five-center heat" (feverish sensation in the palms, soles, and chest) during the summer months, restless sleep, intermittent vomiting, scanty urination, reduced appetite for milk and food, and thirst with desire to drink fluids.

Cinnabaris (processed by water levigation, 3 qian) Huangqin Powder (Scutellariae Radix Powder) Gancao Powder (Licorice Root Powder) [the latter two each half liang] Wuling San Powder (Five-Ingredient Powder with Poria) [2 liang]

Mix all ingredients evenly. Form pills using refined honey, sized like Euryale Seed (Qianshi). Take one to two pills at any time, dissolved in cooked water prepared from Ophiopogonis Radix (Mendonglin Shu Shui). It is also beneficial to take them before bedtime.

Treats watery diarrhea and dysentery with blood and mucus.

Jing Huanglian (Cleaned Coptidis Rhizoma, 1 liang 3 qian) Huangbai (Bark of Phellodendri Cortex stripped of rough surface, 7 qian) Baijiang (White Ginger) Danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis, washed with wine and baked dry, these two each 7 qian 5 fen)

Finely chop the above four herbs, or dry them in the sun or bake them, then grind into powder. Use the rice paste prepared within Wu Xi Wan as a binder to form pills sized like Hemp Seed (Haren). Take 30 to 50 pills at a time, administered on an empty stomach with decoction of Mume Fructus (Wumei). For other conditions, patients generally prefer sweet, salty, and delicious flavors; however, those with diarrhea and dysentery reject these, preferring sour, bitter, astringent, and bland tastes. Therefore, Mume Fructus decoction is used as a guiding agent. For smaller infants, form pills sized like Millet or Grain. The method of administration is the same as above.

Treats malaria that has persisted without recovery.

Changshan (Dichroae Radix, 2 liang, finely chopped) Wumei (Mume Fructus, with seeds, 1 liang, thinly sliced) Hongdan (Red Cinnabar/Dan) [0.5 liang]

Except for Wumei, bake the other herbs on roof tiles separately. Changshan may be dried in the sun or baked. Grind Changshan together with Wumei and Hongdan into a fine powder. Use glutinous rice flour paste as a binder to form pills sized like Hemp Seed. Take 30 to 50 pills. Administer with cool wine on an empty stomach before the onset of fever, or administer with wine every other night. For severe cases, take two doses; for mild cases, take one dose. Avoid chicken, wheat products, mutton, cold drinks, and toxic foods.

Mainly treats injuries from various causes and ailments caused by contracting wind-cold pathogenic factors. It is suitable for both cold and heat syndromes, except for Slow Convulsion (Man Jing) and Slow Spleen Syndrome (Man Pi).

Gegen (Puerariae Lobatae Radix, 3 liang) Jing Xiangfu (Cleaned Cyperi Rhizoma, 2 liang) Shengma (Cimicifugae Rhizoma, cleaned) Qingpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Viride, white pith removed) Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium, white pith removed) Guya (Milii Germen, cleaned and baked dry) Maiya (Hordei Fructus Germinatus, cleaned and baked dry) Jiegeng (Platycodonis Radix, chopped and stir-fried) Zisu (Perillae Folium, including roots) Suosharen (Amomi Fructus Rotundus) Gancao (Licorice Root) Shenqu (Massa Medicata Fermentata, stir-fried) Chishaoyao (Paeoniae Radix Rubra) [these eleven herbs each 1 liang] Mahuang (Ephedrae Herba, processed as above) Zhike (Aurantii Fructus Immaturus, processed as above, these two each 7 qian 5 fen)

Coarsely crush the above ingredients. Take 2 qian per dose, add one cup of water, and decoct until three-tenths remain. Take warm at any time. Alternatively, decoct with fresh ginger and scallion. If there is food stagnation, add water, wine, and Shenqu. If heat predominates, add Dengxincao (Junci Medulla) and Zhuye (Bambusae Folium) for decoction.