Fetal heat

1. A pathocondition in neonates resulting from contraction of heat in the uterus, attributed to the mother eating acrid hot foods or to a externally contracted febrile disease that was not properly cleared and resolved, and characterized by open eyes, red face, puffy swelling of the eyelids, continual crying, reddish urine, and thick stool.

Medicinal therapy: Clear heat and resolve toxin. Use Major Forsythia Beverage (大连翘饮 dà lián qiào yǐn) or Stomach-Clearing Powder (清胃散 qīng wèi sǎn).

2. Loss of eye brightness (visual acuity) with inability to see lights and fires, headache, dizziness, swelling of the cheeks and chin, attributed to liver channel heat toxin attacking upward as a result of excessive consumption of fried food and acrid hot-spicy foods and firy liquor. during pregnancy