Can I take an ayurvedic bath for a child with a cold and cough?

It is not recommended to use mugwort leaves for bathing when children are suffering from wind-heat colds. Mugwort has the effects of warming menstruation and stopping bleeding (warming the body’s meridians to stop internal bleeding), dispersing cold and relieving pain (relieving pain by dispelling cold in the body), and externally dispelling dampness and relieving itching. Mugwort leaves are commonly used clinically for spitting blood, epistaxis, metrorrhagia (excessive menstrual flow or more than a few drops), excessive menstruation, fetal leakage (a small amount of vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy), hemorrhage, cold pain in the lower abdomen (abdomen), cold menstrual disorders, cold uterus and infertility; and externally to treat itching of the skin. It can be seen that mugwort leaves are not used for the treatment of wind-heat colds, so children suffering from wind-heat colds, it is not recommended to use mugwort leaves for bathing. When children have wind-heat cold or wind-heat cough, it is recommended to go to the regular hospital in a timely manner, after a professional doctor to identify the symptoms, under the guidance of the physician to take symptomatic drugs for treatment, do not self-medication or use of moxa leaves bath, so as not to delay or aggravate the patient’s condition.