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Fuling Banxia Tang (Poria and Pinellia Decoction)
(The formula is seen in the preceding "Purgative" section.)

Huisheng San (Revival Powder), treating vomiting and diarrhea in children.
(The formula is seen in the preceding text.)

Yigong San (Extraordinary Efficacy Powder)
(The formula is seen in the preceding "Purgative" section.)

Huoxiang San (Agastache Powder), treating deficiency of the Spleen and Stomach with heat, manifesting as a red face, vomiting, and hiccups.
Herbs: Maidong (Ophiopogonis Radix), Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma Preparatum), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma Praeparata cum Melle) (each half liang), Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum) (each half liang), Huoxiang (Patchouli Herba) (one fen).
Preparation and Administration: Grind the above herbs into fine powder. Take half to one qian per dose, decoct with water, and add fresh ginger during decoction.

Quanying Fang Xiaoshi Wan (Infant Digestion Pill from Quanying Fang), treating abdominal pain and nausea in children caused by spleen injury from raw or cold food.
(This is equivalent to Xiao Qixiang Wan from *Jufang*.)

Bacui Dingtu Zijin He (Purple Gold Core for Stabilizing Vomiting from Bacui)
Herbs: Banxia Mo (Pinelliae Rhizoma Powder, processed), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Dingxiang (Caryophylli Flos), Huoxiang (Patchouli Herba) (each two qian and half).
Preparation and Administration: Grind the above herbs into fine powder and bind them with thin rice paste to form pills the size of a plum pit. Then, take Chenxiang (Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum) and Zhusha (Cinnabaris), each one qian, grind them into fine powder, and use this mixture as the coating for the pills. Dry them in the shade. For administration, take one pill, dissolve it in a decoction of jujubes, and swallow.

Xie Shi Shaozhen Wan (Xie’s Burned Needle Pill), specifically governing regurgitation and vomiting.
Herbs: Fudan (Galeni Halloysitum), quantity不拘 (unrestricted).
Preparation and Administration: Grind the above material to an extremely fine powder. Mix with peeled jujube flesh to form pills the size of a chicken head. To use, pierce the pill with a needle, burn it to ash over a lamp flame, grind the ash into powder, and administer one pill with milk.
Note: This also belongs to the category of drastic purgatives (jieji). Among the above formulas, only Huoxiang San consists of herbs from the Yangming example; the rest are warm-tonifying agents, suitable for selection based on severity, derived from the Lizhong Tang example.

Qian Shi Muxiang Wan (Qian’s Aucklandia Pill), treating pediatric gan accumulation with emaciation and abdominal distension.
Herbs: Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Qingdai (Indigo Naturalis), Binglang (Arecae Semen), Doukou (Amomi Fructus Rotundus) (each one fen), Shexiang (Moschus) (one qian and half), Xuisui Zi (Euphorbiae Lathyridis Semen) (one liang), Hamo (Bufo Skin, burned to retain efficacy) (three).
Preparation and Administration: Grind the above herbs into fine powder and bind with honey to form pills the size of mung beans. Administer three to five pills, up to ten or twenty pills, with mint tea.
Note: This formula comprises herbs of the Hand and Foot Taiyin meridians.

Liwei Dihuang Wan (Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill), treating pediatric gan accumulation with emaciation, failure to thrive, and heat in the fontanelle bones.
Formula (see "Tonifying Deficiency" section).

Quanying Fang Lushen Wan (Quanying Fang Aloe Pill), treating pediatric gan qi with abdominal urgency and bone heat.
Herbs: Lushen (Aloes Wood), Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix), Binglang (Arecae Semen) (each one fen), Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma) (one liang), Wuyi (Chloranthi Fructus, skin removed), Qingpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Viride), Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium) (each half liang), Badou (Crotonis Fructus) (seven to eight grains, stir-fried yellow with the aforementioned four herbs, then remove the beans), Hamo (Bufo Skin, soaked in wine, roasted until yellow, bones removed, one liang).
Preparation and Administration: Grind the above herbs into fine powder and bind with pig bile to form pills the size of adzuki beans. Children aged three years take thirty pills, administered with rice soup.
Note: This formula comprises herbs of the Hand Shaoyin and Hand/Foot Taiyin meridians.

Zhengji Wan (Steamed Chicken Pill), treating pediatric gan lao (consumption) with steaming bone fever, tidal fever, night sweats, emaciation, abdominal urgency, sallow complexion, and inability of food to nourish muscles.
Herbs: Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma) (two liang), Chaihu (Bupleuri Radix) (one liang), Wuyi (Chloranthi Fructus), Heshi (Hirsutella Seed) (each half liang), Qinjiao (Gentianae Macrophyllae Radix), Zhimu (Anemarrhenae Rhizoma), Ziqin (Scutellariae Radix), Shijunzi (Quisqualis Fructus, shelled and stir-fried) (each one liang).
Preparation and Administration: Grind the above herbs into fine powder. Take one yellow rooster weighing one jin, confine it in a cage, and feed it exclusively with hemp seeds for five days. Remove feathers and viscera, clean thoroughly, stuff the herb powder inside, and sew shut with thread. Place a small zeng (steamer) and铺铺 (line) the bottom with black soybeans three cun thick. Place the chicken around and on top, cover with more black soybeans. Steam from morning until evening. Remove the meat, grind it, mix with the powder, and bind with wine paste to form pills the size of adzuki beans. Children aged two years take twenty pills, adjusting dosage as needed, administered with rice drink. Avoid pork.
Note: This formula comprises herbs of the Hand Shaoyin and Foot Shaoyang meridians.

Fei'er Wan (Fat Child Pill), cutting off gan accumulation, killing parasites, treating abdominal distension, and promoting digestion.
Herbs: Shijunzi (meat), Luobozhi (Radish Seed) (each two liang), Xiao Hongzao (meat of small red jujube, one liang), Tangqiuzi (Sugar Ball Seed, powdered), Feiluo Mian (Fine Sieved Wheat Flour) (each two liang).
Preparation and Administration: Use good yellow earth to make a mud stove. Line the bottom with slices of radish, place Shijunzi meat in the center, cover with another layer of radish, and top with jujube meat. Seal the exterior with mud and bake with charcoal fire until the internal three ingredients are cooked and soft. Remove, mix with fine flour and sugar ball seed powder, and form pills the size of sesame seeds. Dosage depends on the child's age, administered with rice drink.
Note: This formula comprises herbs of the Foot Yangming and Foot Taiyang meridians.

Wugan Xiaoshi Wan (Five-Gan Digestion Pill), eliminating gan accumulation, killing parasites, reducing heat, resolving stagnation, and stimulating appetite.
Herbs: Shijunzi (stir-fried meat), Maiya (Hordei Fructus Germinatus, stir-fried), Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium), Maiqu (Saccharomyces, stir-fried), Wuyi (Chloranthi Fructus), Caolongdan (Gentianae Scabrae Radix), Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma, stir-fried), Tangqiuzi (Sugar Ball Seed) (equal parts).
Preparation and Administration: Grind the above herbs into fine powder and bind with old rice to form pills the size of millet seeds. Administer ten pills per dose with rice drink.
Note: This formula comprises herbs of the Hand Shaoyin and Hand Taiyin meridians. However, gan syndromes vary due to deficiency, excess, accumulated heat, etc. The above formulas do not exhaust all variations; practitioners should deduce and treat according to pattern differentiation.