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Qingzhou Bai Wan Zi (Green Zhou White Pills)
Rhizoma Arisaematis Cum Bile (Nanxing, 3 liang), Rhizoma Pinelliae Preparatum (Banxia, 7 liang), Radix Bolbostemonis (Baifuzi, 2 liang), Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii (Chuanwu, 0.5 liang; all used raw).
Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, place in a silk bag, and agitate in well water until the water runs clear. Change the water and soak for three to five days, then dry in the sun. Form pills using glutinous rice flour.
Note: This formula is used to treat cold phlegm and wind-phlegm.

Bao Long Wan (Embrace Dragon Pills)
Realgar (Xionghuang), Cinnabar (Chensha), Fructus Trichosanthis Giganthei Semen (Tianzhuhuang, 4 qian each), Moschus (Shexiang, 1 qian), Ox-gallstone-treated Rhizoma Arisaematis (Niudan Nanxing, 8 qian; dried in the shade inside an ox gallbladder collected in the twelfth lunar month, to be used within one hundred days; if fresh material is unavailable, soak in water for two days and bake before use).
Grind the above ingredients into fine powder. Boil liquorice paste as a binder to form pills the size of soap pods. For children aged three, administer one pill per dose, adjusting according to the child's size, with mint decoction as the vehicle.
Note: This formula is used to treat wind-phlegm and heat-phlegm.

Xuan Feng San (Disperse Wind Powder)
Areca Seed (Binglang, 2 pieces), Exocarpium Citri Reticulatae (Chenpi), Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata (Gancao, 0.5 liang each), Semen Kochiae (Qianniu, 4.5 liang; half raw, half stir-fried).
Grind the above ingredients into fine powder. Administer 1 qian per dose, adjusting according to the child's size, taken with herbal decoction.
Note: This is a formula to drain damp-phlegm.

Bian Yin Wan (Narrow Silver Pills)
Fructus Crotonis Tiglii (Badou, 0.5 liang, oil removed and ground), Good Ink (Hamo, 8 qian, calcined with vinegar and crushed), Hydrargyrum (Shuiyin, 0.5 liang), Plumbum Nigrum (Heiqian, 1.5 qian, amalgamated with mercury to form cinnabar-like grains), Moschus (Shexiang, 0.5 qian, separately ground).
First, grind the Badou powder and ink together until uniform, then add the mercury-lead amalgam. Mix with old rice porridge to form pills the size of mung beans, shaping them into cakes. For one-year-old children, administer one pill with mint decoction.
Note: This formula is used to drain food stagnation and phlegm masses.
General Note: Children often suffer from phlegm-heat conditions; it is advisable to combine Bao Long Wan with Huadu Dan and similar formulas. Therefore, such examples are not extensively recorded here.

Formulas for Treating Internal Injury and Phlegm Masses
Qian Shi Bai Bing Zi (Master Qian’s White Cake Pills)
Indicated for abdominal phlegm masses, characterized by coughing and vomiting phlegm-saliva despite only consuming breast milk.
See the "Phlegm-Fluids Section" for the prescription.
Note: This formula drains phlegm accumulation and food accumulation; its rationale is discussed in the "Phlegm-Fluids Section."

Xiao Ji Wan (Eliminate Accumulation Pills)
Caryophylli Flos (Dingxiang, 9 pieces), Amomi Fructus Rotundus (Sharen, 12 pieces), Fructus Crotonis Tiglii (Badou, 2 pieces, oil removed), Sarcotesta Pruni Mume (Wumei Rou, 3 pieces).
Grind the above ingredients into fine powder. Form pills the size of millet seeds using wheat paste. For children over three years old, administer 3–5 pills; for younger children, 2–3 pills, taken with warm water.

Xiao Jian Wan (Eliminate Hardness Pills)
Indicated for milk masses and lower chest congestion, as well as phlegm-heat with diaphragmatic fullness and accumulation.
Sandarac Powder (Shamo), Fructus Crotonis Tiglii (Badou, oil removed), Calomelas (Qingfen, 1 qian each), Mercury-Amalgam Grains (size of two soap pods), Gelatinum Corii Asini (Huangmingjiao, 5 qian).
Grind these ingredients uniformly together. Form pills the size of hemp seeds using wheat paste. Take with flowing water. For one-year-old children, administer one pill after meals.
Note: These two formulas differ in their cold/heat properties and intensity; select appropriately. The subsequent methods are similar.

Baojian San Leng Jian Wan (Precious Mirror Three-Spindle Decoction Pills)
Indicated for excessive food intake leading to epigastric distension and pain, indigestion of retained food, which over time forms phlegm masses.
Curcuma Zedoaria Rhizome (Guangzhu, preferably black-horned type), Curcuma Phaeocaulis Rhizome (Jingsanleng); wrap these two in wet paper and roast until done, then grind into powder (each 1 liang), Rhubarb Radix et Rhizoma (Dahuang, peeled, 8 liang).
First, grind Dahuang into powder. Soak thoroughly in good vinegar in a stone mortar, then slowly simmer into a paste. Mix with the other two powders to form pills the size of hemp or mung beans. Administer 10–20 pills after meals with warm water.

Biejia Zhudu Wan (Softshell Turtle Pig Stomach Pills)
Indicated for fever caused by phlegm masses.
Testudinis Carapax et Plastrum (Biejia, seven-ribbed variety, 7 qian, boiled in vinegar until yellow), Artemisiae Annuae Herba (Qinghao), Coptidis Rhizoma (Huanglian, 7 qian each), Exocarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride (Qingpi), Aurantii Fructus Immaturus (Zhishi, stir-fried), Aucklandiae Radix (Muxiang, 0.5 liang each), Bupleuri Radix (Chaihu, 1 liang).
Grind the above ingredients into fine powder. Take one pig stomach, remove the fat, stuff it with the medicine, and steam until cooked. Mash together with the stomach meat to form pills the size of lucerne seeds. Administer 30 pills after meals with Ginseng Radix decoction.

Guangzhu Hua Pi Wan (Zedoaria Resolve Mass Pills)
Indicated for indigestion of milk and food, epigastric and abdominal fullness, high fever, coarse breathing, vomiting, reverse flow of phlegm, food pathology, and milk masses.
Haematitum (Daizheshi, quenched in vinegar), Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Danggui), Cinnabaris (Zhusha, ground), Aurantii Fructus Immaturus (Zhike, stir-fried), Curcuma Zedoaria Rhizome (Guangzhu, processed), Curcuma Phaeocaulis Rhizome (Jingshanleng, processed, 0.5 liang each), Aucklandiae Radix (Muxiang, 1 liang), Moschus (Shexiang), Fructus Crotonis Tiglii (Badou, oil removed, 1 fen each).
Grind the above ingredients into fine powder. Form pills the size of hemp seeds using a paste binder. For each year of age, administer two pills with rice drink.