Table of Contents in English

CASE 2: Medicine and Childbirth

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Treatise on Successful Childbirth

(Translated excerpts from Wen Huide woodblock edition, 1830)

First Chapter
  • Original preface
  • General compilation principles
  • Understanding the origins of life
  • Nearing the time of birth
  • Appropriate prohibitions
  • Trial pains
  • Actual cases

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Second Chapter
  • Protecting the fetus
  • Eating and drinking
  • The seven causes of difficult birth
  • Postpartum ailments
  • Miscarriage
  • The fetus dies in the belly
  • The placenta does not descend
  • Lack of breast milk

 

Medical Formulae
  • Lovage and angelica decoction with added ingredients
  • Buddha hand powder
  • Powder to harmonize the stomach
  • Producing and transforming decoction
  • Decoction for easy birth
  • Divinely efficacious remedy for protecting the fetus
  • Exceedingly wondrous decoction for clearing away fluids and saving life
  • Completely efficaction decoction for expediting birth and preserving in labor
  • Remedy for securing the fetus
  • Tincture of yinning for securing the fetus
  • Angelica decoction for replenishing blood
  • Hua Tuo’s powder for curing wind ailments
  • Priceless elixir
  • Things that ought to be prohibited for a woman in childbirth
  • Things prohibited after childbirth

 

Appendix
  • What you must know to protect the infant
  • A simple, tested, and wondrous method employing horse tooth for preventing navel wind in infants
  • Remedy for consumption in children
  • Mnemonic rhymes on ganli illness
  • Divine formula for treating gan syndrome in children

 

Appendix
  • Mysteriously transmitted secret formula for avoiding pox eruptions
  • Tested prescription for making pox scarce
  • Mysteriously transmitted formula for avoiding eruptions of small pox
  • Potion of three beans

 

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