Pediatric colds should be treated with Chinese herbal medicines when choosing external compresses, for example, wind-cold people can use Jingwu, Fangfeng, Qianhu, Ge Gen, etc., in order to relieve the epidermis with pungent warmth; wind-heat people can use honeysuckle, forsythia, gardenia, scutellaria, etc., to relieve the epidermis with pungent coolness. Children’s cold can be caused by a variety of factors, such as feeling the wind, cold and heat and other different evils, etc., the conditioning treatment should be identified when adding or subtracting formulas, external compresses also need to be identified to select the acupoints. For example, wind-cold people mostly use wind-dispersing and cold-dispersing medicines such as jingbao, fengfeng, qianhu, kudzu root, etc. to form a formula; wind-heat people mostly use pungent and cool-dispersing medicines such as honeysuckle, forsythia, gardenia, scutellariae, etc. to form a formula. Children’s colds are often accompanied by phlegm, stagnation, alarm, etc., the prescription should be added or subtracted accordingly, such as phlegm can be added half-summer, Chen Pi and other phlegm drugs; stagnation can be added to the chicken Neijin, hawthorn and other food stagnation (to promote the digestion of food) medicine; alarm can be added to the stiff silkworms, cicadas, etc., in order to rest the wind to calm the alarm, and so on. Acupuncture points are often chosen to identify the symptoms, such as Lung Yu, Tingpai, Daxi, Fenglong, and Shusanli. Pediatric colds should be treated with traditional Chinese medicine under the guidance of a physician, selecting acupuncture points and medicines, and should not be used without authorization.