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Fetal Cold: After one hundred days, if a child suffers from fetal cold, the legs are flexed and difficult to extend, the hands are clenched into fists, the mouth is cold, the abdomen is distended, and the body trembles. The child cries incessantly during the day and wails in torment at night.

Fetal Heat: For infants aged three days to over a month, symptoms include closed eyes and puffy eyelids, with frequent groaning caused by internal fire dryness. This is undoubtedly fetal heat.

Umbilical Wind (Omphalotonia): If wind pathogen invades the umbilicus early, auspicious or ominous signs can be verified within seven days. If abnormal colors appear at the umbilicus and mouth, accompanied by foul sounds and breath, it is an ominous sign.

Umbilical Hernia: Half a month to over a month after birth, the umbilicus protrudes and floats initially; this is not a severe disease. It is caused by the retention of turbid fluids in the middle jiao. Medication should be administered gradually to resolve it.

Night Crying: Night crying has four syndromes, with fright being one. Absence of tears, irritability and heat upon seeing Dengxincao (Heart of Nard Herb); crystal-clear complexion with greenish tinge and cold below the umbilicus; sudden crying during sleep indicates disturbance of the spirit.

Acute Convulsion (Ji Jing): Red face, sudden collapse, whole-body heat, black lips, locked jaw, breath as if absent, eyes rolling upward, convulsions and spasms, phlegm rattle in the throat. This is acute convulsion, easy to diagnose.

Acute Convulsion (Continued): If acute convulsion transmits like malaria afterwards, it is due to external wind pathogen invasion and qi deficiency. Slightly release the exterior to harmonize qi and strengthen spleen and stomach, then the alternating chills and fever will be eliminated.

Chronic Convulation (Man Jing): Yin excess and yang deficiency indicate deep disease. After vomiting and diarrhea, the eyes remain half-open during sleep (yang jing), consciousness is confused, pulse is slow, and salivation is profuse. This syndrome is clearly chronic convulsion.

Spasm Syndrome (Chu Zheng): Spasm syndrome must distinguish between acute and chronic convulsion. It is also caused by qi stagnation leading to coma. A skilled physician treats by regulating qi; when qi descends, the spasms naturally stop.

Various Winds: Various wind pathogens combined with heat invade the skin, forming nodules difficult to remove immediately. Cheek swelling requires prevention of internal throat and tongue lesions. To eliminate wind-heat, external application is suitable.

Food Accumulation Injury: Headache, body heat, slight abdominal distension, cold feet, confusion, and excessive sleepiness. This is caused by dietary injury weakening spleen qi. Delay is inadvisable; releasing the exterior should come first.

Vomiting and Diarrhea: Spleen deficiency and stomach weakness are the root causes. Failure of digestion and transportation of food and water leads to conflict between clear and turbid qi, resulting in vomiting and diarrhea. Prolonged transmission leads to weakness and subsequent generation of wind.

Cold Damage (Shang Han): The manifestations of Shang Han are varied; general deduction makes rescue difficult. Red eyes, frequent sneezing, coarse breathing, and body heat indicate Shang Han.

Wind Strike (Shang Feng): Wind strike involves fever and headache, slightly red cheeks, abundant nasal discharge, sweating over the whole body, and cough. This wind strike syndrome is easy to harmonize.

Combined Food Retention: Nasal discharge, headache, frequent vomiting and regurgitation, varying red and pale facial complexions. This is due to combined food retention and Shang Han. Releasing the exterior is effective, followed by purging accumulation.

Combined Fright: Slight body heat, irritability, restless sleep, and unclear spirit. This is a wind-strike and cold-invasion syndrome. It is appropriate to release the exterior first, then calm the heart.

Red and White Dysentery: Pediatric dysentery requires careful investigation. It is not solely caused by accumulation. Although cold and heat patterns differ, widening the intestines and regulating the stomach depends on the wise physician.

Five Types of Dysentery: Dysentery presenting five colors is distressing. Prolonged duration leads to confusion of spirit and qi. Severe headache and abdominal pain indicate that the child's life is hard to save.

Five Types of Gan (Wasting-Thirst): Five types of Gan involve five zang organs. Treatment methods are detailed and not difficult. Yellow complexion, emaciation, burnt teeth, and falling hair indicate Gan syndrome.

Running Horse Gan (Zou Ma Gan): Running Horse Gan resembles toxic Shang Han. The face is shiny and puffy, with asthma and chest tightness. Burnt teeth and bloody gums confirm the true form of Running Horse Gan.

Rectal Prolapse: Prolapsed anus that is difficult to reduce for a long time, further complicated by wind invasion, is worrying. Cold sinking first transmits to spleen and stomach. Distinguishing cold and heat makes it easy to cure.

Various Hernias (Shan): Various hernias have their own names, generally caused by injury and heat qi invasion. Initial treatment divides into Shaoyao Wumei San, Yunqi Jinling Zi San, and Wuling San.

Cough: Although cough is divided into cold and heat, wind-cold invading the lung causes eye puffiness, abundant phlegm, and rattling in the throat. Playing in water often occurs because sweat has not dried.

Mouth Ulcers (E Kou Chuang - inferred context): Infants cry out while eating; sour and salty tastes disrupt them. It may be lung wind injuring water-dampness, or aggregation of wind, cold, and heat. Wise physicians treat accordingly.

Abdominal Pain: Generally, abdominal pain originates from various sources, not just mass formations (jia) and fixed lumps (pi). Analyzing categories reveals many syndromes, as detailed in this text.

Mouth Sores: Heat steaming upwards from heart, spleen, and stomach corrodes the tongue and gum tissue. Bad breath and sores at Chengjiang acupoint are distinct. Though sores are easy to treat, there are prescriptions from all directions.

Eye Syndromes: Eyes turn red about twenty days after birth, due to abdominal heat combined with wind. Cooling liver and heart herbs are best. Hernia and smallpox syndromes require separate attack.

Double Tongue (Chong She): Various pathogenic heats during fetal development cause heat congestion in the triple burner, forming double tongue. Or it becomes Eagle Mouth syndrome (E Kou Chuang), which is worrying. Medication requires needle pricking to rupture.