Oysters (soaked in wine, deboned, baked), White Elm (peeled), Coptis (with roots removed), Picrorhiza, each 45 gm, Indigo Naturalis 15 gm (as coating).

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder, mix with pig bile and flour to form pills the size of millet grains. Take 30 pills each time, swallowed with rice water, after meals and before sleep, three times a day.

bubble_chart Indications

Infants who are not properly fed or exposed to unsuitable temperatures may develop infantile malnutrition with accumulation, or dysentery. Symptoms include dry and yellow hair, withered skin, thin legs and enlarged liver, cranial and chest deformities, gradual emaciation, intermittent chills and fever, night sweats and cough, lumps at the back of the head, abdominal masses, turbid urine, pus-filled dysentery, biting fingers, craving for sweet, sour, or earthy substances, vomiting undigested food, frequent thirst and irritability, unconsciousness, red nose and dry lips, expulsion of small worms, heart pain from roundworms, malnutrition affecting the eyes (keratomalacia) and night blindness, collectively known as infantile nutritional edema. This medicine is miraculously effective.