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Floating duckweed (Pingmu, *Lemna minor*), dried in the shade.

For each dose, take one or two qian, adjusted according to the child's age. Take half a sheep liver, place it in a cup, crush it thoroughly with a stick into a paste, add half he of water, and squeeze out the liver juice. Mix the medicine powder with the juice and administer orally. Take after meals. For mild cases, one dose is curative; for cases where the eyes have been injured, ten doses are curative. Physician Xing Du used this prescription, and there were many successful cases before and after.

Treating pediatric "Zouma Gan" (Rapidly progressing cancrum oris), characterized by rotting gums, foul-smelling bloody discharge, halitosis, and tooth loss.
Coptidis Rhizoma (Huanglian, *Coptis chinensis*), powdered, three qian; Viriditas (Tonglü); Musk (Shexiang, *Moschus*); Mercury (Shuiyin, *Hydrargyrum*, one qian, boiled with one jujube flesh and ground together).

Rinse the mouth thoroughly first, then apply the medicine to the sores, covering them with leaves of *Lindera aggregata* (Lanxiang). For sores that have eroded inward forming cavities, a single application promotes tissue regeneration.
Treating pediatric "Zouma Gan", where ulcers on lips and teeth spread rapidly, causing critical distress; this prescription ensures recovery.
Realgar (Pishuang); White Arsenite (Fenshuang, *Arsenicum album*). These two substances must be ground extremely fine first.
Calcined Alumen (Duanshi), sifted and ground.

Mix equal parts of the above three ingredients. Grind by rotating left and right for over a thousand times until as fine as flour. Each time, use a chicken feather to sprinkle a small amount onto the sore. The sore will dry up. Be extremely cautious not to use too much, as ingestion may cause severe toxicity. In Donghai County, Haizhou, people sold this medicine. For each case, only one sprinkle, sized like a grain of rice, was sufficient for cure without exception.

Treating various types of pediatric Gan syndrome (malnutrition syndrome), various dysenteries, qi distension due to dietary injury, emaciation with a large head, hair matted in tufts, high fever with anorexia and lethargy, rotting teeth and nasal sores, Dingxi Gan, and Dahe Gan.
Dahe (*Bufo bufo gargarizans* or similar toad product), one piece: remove skin, bones, abdomen, and stomach; roast and grind into powder. Boil with one zhan of unfermented wine and one pig gallbladder until it forms a paste.
Terminalia Chebula Retz. (Hezi), processed; Quisqualis Indica L. (Shijunzi); Picrorhiza Scrophulariiflora Pennell (Huhuanglian); Cicada Slough (Chanke), unwashed; Inkstone Stone (Moshizi); Aloe (Luhui); Myrobalan (Wuyi); Bear Gallbladder (Xiongdan); Cinnabar (Zhusha); Nyctibiidae Excrement (Yemingsha); Realgar (Xionghuang, *Realgar*), one fen each, ground; Costus Root (Muxiang); Nutmeg (Roudoukou), half fen in spring/summer, one fen in autumn/winter; Calculus Bovis (Niuhuang, *Bovis Calculus*), two qian; Musk (Shexiang, *Moschus*), one qian; Borneol (Longnao), five fen.

Grind all ingredients into pills the size of hemp seeds. Administer five to seven pills with warm water. For Jing Gan (Shock Gan), administer with Jin Yinbohe Tang (Honeysuckle and Mint Decoction); for Gan Gan (Liver Gan) with abdominal distension, administer with Taoren Huixiang Tang (Peach Kernel and Fennel Decoction); for Gan Chong (Gan Parasites), administer with Dongyin Shiliu Kulian Gen Tang (East-facing Pomegranate and Chinaberry Root Decoction). Children over five years old take ten pills. This medicine is particularly effective for Gan Dysentery. It should not be taken for dysentery accompanied by heat syndromes.