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The song in "Xing Zheng Lun" states: Dysentery with five colors has the most diverse causes; seeing this symptom indicates there are five types. Green color is solely due to fright causing qi stagnation and accumulation; yellow is mostly due to food stagnation in the spleen; white is caused by cold deficiency in the intestines and stomach; red is due to accumulated heat, which is hardest to stabilize; chicken liver color (purple-black) indicates hidden accumulation of blood stasis, often appearing in clumps; black involves the mixture of blood and toxins, also difficult to stabilize. If accompanied by lip twitching, chest distension, exposed teeth, facial redness, and protruding meridians, these are often precursors to worsening conditions. At this point, it is urgent to soothe the zang-fu organs and administer harmonizing decoctions; physicians should pay attention and follow the ancients' wisdom.

Another song states: Do not consider dysentery with five colors strange; it begins to appear in children before the age of four. Green is still due to fright causing qi stagnation and accumulation; yellow is due to food stagnation toxins in the spleen; red and black indicate heart and kidney diseases respectively; white is mostly due to spleen damage. Before the age of twenty-one (three sevens), the body undergoes no major changes; do not allow excessive sleep, and ensure feeding and drinking are slow and moderate. Treating this disease requires first harmonizing the five zang organs and tonifying Ying and Wei Qi, so that the condition will gradually heal. If accompanied by swollen eyes and inability to eat (Yang considered this a bad omen), simply administer Tiao Wei San for supplementation.

Mr. Wang from Handong's Decoction and Pills treat pediatric diarrhea and dysentery, characterized by excretion of five-colored pus and blood resembling rotten fish intestines, with no normal stool, only pus and blood, and churning pain in the intestines.
Ingredients: Fen Shuang (Lead Oxide), Qing Fen (Calomel), Sha (Realgar) (each 1 qian), Zhu Sha (Cinnabar) (1 qian bi using a scoop), Bai Ding Xiang (Stolex) (4 qian using a spoon), Ru Xiang (Frankincense) (0.5 qian, separately ground), Ba Dou (Croton Seed) (7 grains, peeled and cored, without extracting oil).
Grind the above into powder, and form pills using steamed jujube flesh. For infants, take three pills the size of millet seeds; for children aged two to three, the size of hemp seeds; for ages four to five, the size of sesame seeds. Prepare fresh for each dose, swallow with boiled water decoction, twice a day, interspersed with administration of stomach-regulating medicines.

Formula for internal treatment among the thirty-six types, for five-colored foul matter and incessant mental restlessness and heat:
Ingredients: Di Yu (Sanguisorba Root), Bai Fu Ling (Poria), Huang Bo (Phellodendron Bark) (roasted, each 1 liang).
Grind the above into powder. Take 1 qian per dose, add one cup of water, boil down to half a cup, remove dregs, and divide into three doses.

San Shuang Wan (Three Frost Pills) treats pediatric red-white or five-colored stagnant dysentery.
Ingredients: Ba Dou (Croton Seed) (peeled, select white, plump, good quality ones, 3 qian, grind finely, first wrap in white silk cloth thirty to twenty layers thick, then wrap in white paper outside, press with a large stone until oil is exhausted, use the remaining 2 qian of lighter material), Zhen Qing Fen (Pure Calomel), Fen Shuang (Lead Oxide) (each 2 qian).
Grind the above three ingredients together until extremely fine. Separately take 3 qian of good yellow beeswax, boil in wine for thirty to twenty boils, remove, drain the wine cleanly, melt again, and mix with the medicine. Wine-boiled wax is also acceptable. Form into a paste, store in oiled paper. When administering, roll into pills the size of small mung beans.
For children under three years old, pill size like millet seeds, take three to five pills per dose, swallow with warm cooked water, adjust dosage according to the child's size.

"Ji Family Transmission" formula for treating five-colored dysentery with incessant thirst:
Ingredients: Fu Ling (Poria), Xuan Huang Lian (Scutellaria), Huang Bo (Phellodendron Bark) (equal parts).
Take the Huang Bo powder, mix with Jiang Shui (fermented grain water) to form a paste like flour dough, let stand for a while, then mix with the other two ingredients to form pills the size of mung beans. For three-year-olds, take seven pills with rice drink. To kill Glandworms (Gan), take five pills with cooked water.

Zhi Sheng Wan (Supreme Sage Pill) treats five-colored dysentery.
Ingredients: Hou Po (Magnolia Bark) (peeled, ginger-processed), Huang Bo (Phellodendron Bark) (lightly peeled, coated with egg white and roasted until yellow and ripe, re-coat if dry), Dang Gui (Angelica Sinensis) (soaked in wine).
Grind the above three ingredients equally into fine powder, bind with refined honey to form pills the size of sophora seeds. For children, make smaller pills. Administer with Hou Po Tang decoction, forty pills per dose, adjust as needed.

Ding Fen San (Fixed Powder Powder) treats Gan Dysentery and five-colored dysentery.
Ingredients: Ding Fen (White Lead Powder), Long Gu (Fossilized Bones), Huang Dan (Red Lead) (calcined, each 2 qian), He Zi (Chebula Fruit) (three fruits, roasted until ripe, take the flesh).
Grind the above into powder. Take half a qian per dose, swallow with porridge drink. For children over three years old, take half a qian.