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A clove, a scorpion and a pinch of cinnabar, worked into a paste with a drop of blood from the child's finger and smeared on his lips. 卽愈 — and he recovers at once. This is the first 慢驚風 leaf of the section, so the clinical frame belongs here and the other leaves point back to it. 慢驚風 is not the common febrile seizure of a previously well child. It is the chronic picture: a child who has had a long diarrhoea and is now pale, cold, limp and drowsy, with slow twitching. That child is convulsing because something systemic has gone wrong — dehydration and electrolyte derangement, hypoglycaemia, hypocalcaemia, sometimes meningitis or the encephalopathy of severe malnutrition. The prognosis really was as bad as the chapter says. **The intervention that would have saved most of these children is fluid and electrolyte replacement.** Oral rehydration solution does it for a few cents a child, and it did not exist until the twentieth century; no formula in this section, this one included, replaces a single millilitre of what the child has lost. **Contains cinnabar, which is mercuric sulfide. The patient is a child, and the text gives no dose by weight anywhere.** Mercury injures a developing nervous system irreversibly, at exposures that leave an adult unharmed, and 1 ja is a pinch measured against nothing. **It also contains scorpion, a neurotoxic animal venom whose dose in dried material cannot be measured.** It must not be prepared. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.