Table of Contents in English
CASE 2: Medicine and Childbirth
How to Read It: TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
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