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For infants and children presenting with five-palm heat (feverish sensation in the palms, soles, and chest), thirst, and desire to drink water, boil black soybeans (Glycine max) for them to eat to calm the spirit.
For infants and children suffering from slow convulsion (slow jing-feng) with lethargy and occasional twitching or clonic spasms, grind Ligusticum wallichii (Wuyao) into water, warm it, and administer orally.
For infants and children suffering from acute or slow convulsion (jing-feng), take twenty pills of Zhenling Dan, ten pills of Laifu Dan, and ten pills of Bai Wanzi. Grind these three ingredients uniformly, and form pills using rice paste, sized like mung beans. For larger children, administer five pills; for smaller children, three pills. For slow convulsion, swallow with decoction made from Northern dates (Jujubae Fructus) and tangerine peel (Chenpi); for acute convulsion, swallow with fresh ginger juice and boiling water.
Infants and children may suffer from ten types of Dan-du (a type of skin disease characterized by redness, swelling, and heat). Scholar Xu stated: If these ten types of Dan-du are not treated within three days, the pathogenic factor will attack the intestines and stomach, becoming incurable. They should be identified one by one carefully:
1. Huo Chi Chuang (Fire Red Sore): Starting with redness, swelling, and pain on the head, apply a mixture of Adzuki bean powder (Vigna angularis) and egg white.
3. Gui Huo Dan (Ghost Fire Dan): Starting with redness and swelling on the face, apply a mixture of Caulis Trachycarpi (Zao Xin Tu) and egg white.
4. Tian Huo Dan (Heaven Fire Dan): Starting with red spots on the back, apply a mixture of Mulberry Root Bark powder (Sangbaipi) and sheep fat.
5. Tian Zao Dan (Heaven Stove Dan): Starting with redness, swelling, and yellow coloration on both arms, use Willow [text missing in source]... [Source text breaks here]. [Following fragment]: Yellow swelling, use Areca Seed powder (Binglang) mixed with rice vinegar.
8. Ye Huo Dan (Wild Fire Dan): Starting with redness and swelling on both feet, apply a mixture of Frankincense powder (Ruxiang) and sheep fat.
9. Yan Huo Dan (Smoke Fire Dan): Starting with red and white spots on both feet, apply earth from under a pig trough mixed with sesame oil.
10. Hu Lou Dan (Barbarian Leak Dan): Starting with yellow swelling on the genitals, apply earth from a leaking roof area mixed with sheep fat.

For infants and children suffering from head sores, fetal toxins, various wind-heat conditions, malignant sores, and smallpox, use the following:
Phellodendri Cortex (Huangbai), Coptidis Rhizoma (Huanglian), Angelicae Dahuricae Radix (Baizhi), and Galae (Wubeizi).
Grind these four ingredients in equal proportions into fine powder. Mix with well-water (Jinghua Shui) to an appropriate consistency, spread inside a bowl, place the bowl on two bricks, and fumigate with mugwort smoke generated from the hollow space below until the medicine turns black and dry. Then, remove the medicine, re-grind it into powder, and apply mixed with refined oil. If there are parasites/worms, apply mixed with boiled oil.
Another prescription: Equal parts of Galae (Wubeizi) and Angelicae Dahuricae Radix (Baizhi) ground into powder. If there is pus/fluid, sprinkle the powder dry onto the lesion, and the fluid will stop. If there is a dry scab, apply mixed with refined oil.
For infants and children with smallpox affecting the eyes (Dou Yan), grind Sparganii Rhizoma (Gu Jingcao) into powder and consume it dipped in persimmon (Shi) or pork liver or maltose syrup.