Babies with abdominal pain can drink mugwort leaf water if they have abdominal pain with deficiency cold, but they need to follow the doctor’s instructions.
Ai Ye is pungent and warm in nature, and its effects are warming menstruation, dispersing cold, relieving pain, and stopping bleeding; it is used for cold bleeding such as epistaxis, vomiting blood, excessive menstruation, metrorrhagia (excessive menstruation or more than a few drops of menstruation), fecal leakage (small amount of bleeding from the vagina in the early stage of pregnancy), hemorrhage, as well as cold pains in the lower abdomen, infertility with cold uterus and cold dysfunction of the menstrual cycle.
Therefore, if abdominal pain in infants is recognized as cold abdominal pain, mugwort leaves can be taken. However, mugwort leaves are generally used for decoction, soaking water to drink does not achieve the medicinal effect.
Mugwort leaves can also be used externally to dispel dampness and relieve itching, for the treatment of itchy skin. Vinegar moxa charcoal is preferred to warm menstruation to stop bleeding, used for cold bleeding.
People with Yin deficiency and blood heat should be cautious of using moxa leaves. It should be used reasonably under the guidance of a doctor.