Medical expertsat the time believed that it could be cured by hsiunghuang (realgar) and niu-huang (cow-bezoare), and large quantities of both were used in medicine for infants.
我國早在宋朝就有「胎毒」的說法，當時醫學家認為，雄黃與牛黃可以「解胎毒」，因此大量用於兒科方劑。