The scientific name is cicada

Pinyin of cicada: chántuì Meaning: the shell shed by cicada larvae when they turn into adults. The English name is PERIOSTRACUM CICADAE, also known as cicada retreat, cicada clothing, insect slough, and cicada shell. , grasshopper skin, cicada skin, taurine source. This product is the skin shell shed by the larvae of the black grasshopper Cryptotympana pustulata Fabricius when it emerges. Collect in summer and autumn, remove sediment and dry in the sun. Preparation method: Remove impurities, wash and dry. Properties: This product is slightly oval and curved, about 3.5cm long and 2cm wide. The surface is yellow-brown, translucent and shiny. There is a pair of filamentous antennae on the head, most of which have been broken off, and the compound eyes are prominent. The tip of the forehead is prominent, the muzzle is well developed, the upper lip is wide and short, and the lower lip is elongated into a tube shape. The back of the chest is split in a cross shape, and the split is curled inward. There are 2 pairs of small wings on both sides of the back; there are 3 pairs of legs on the ventral surface, covered with yellow-brown fine hairs. The abdomen is blunt and round, with 9 segments. Light, hollow, and fragile. Odorless, light taste. Meridian distribution of nature and flavor: sweet, cold. Returns to the lung and liver meridians. Functions and Indications: Dispersing wind and removing heat, soothing the throat, clearing rash, reducing nebula, and relieving spasm. It is used for wind-heat cold, sore throat, hoarse voice, measles, itching, rubella, red eyes, convulsions and tetanus. Usage and Dosage Oral administration: decoction, 1-2 qian; or take into pills or powder. External use: decoct in water and wash or grind into powder for application. What to avoid: Pregnant women should take it with caution. Storage] Store in a dry place to prevent pressure. Odor: salty, sweet, cold, non-toxic. Remarks: Cicada

(1) It is used for external wind-heat, fever, chills, cough, rubella, and skin itching. Cicada slough has the effect of dispersing wind and heat, and is often used with peppermint and the like for superficial symptoms of wind and heat. It also has the function of dispelling wind and relieving itching for rubella pruritus. (2) Used for poor penetration of measles. Cicada sheds hair and has a heat-clearing effect. Because it mainly dispels wind and heat, it is mostly used for people with measles who have difficulty in hair drying at the beginning. It is often used together with burdock and mint. However, if the rash is not smooth due to severe heat, it can also be used with it. Lithospermum, forsythia and other applications. (3) Used for sore throat and mute voice. Cicada slough is suitable for treating sore throat caused by exogenous wind-heat. It has the effect of dispelling wind-heat and soothing the throat. It is often used in conjunction with mint, burdock, forsythia, platycodon, and licorice. As for the treatment of mute tone, it is suitable to treat those caused by wind evil stagnation in the lungs or lack of lung qi. Its function of detoxifying the lungs and opening up the sound is often used in combination with platycodon, jade butterfly, and pangdahai. (4) Used for red and swollen eyes and shading of eyes. This product can improve eyesight and reduce eye congestion caused by wind-heat, as well as eye congestion caused by measles. It can be used with chrysanthemum, glutinous rice grass, white tribulus, etc. (5) Used for tetanus, infantile convulsions, night crying and other diseases. Cicada slough can not only dispel external wind, but also calm internal wind and relieve spasm depending on the condition. For tetanus and twitching of the limbs, it can be used with whole scorpion. For convulsions and children crying at night and epilepsy, it can be used with Uncaria and the same. .

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Synonyms

Xijia ("Zhuangzi"), cicada shell, Fuxin, dry cicada ("Bielu") , the skin of the cricket has retreated ("Supplementary Materials of Materia Medica"), the cicada has retreated from its shell ("Shenghui Prescription"), Jinniuer ("Easy and Simple Prescriptions for Hygiene"), the cicada has retreated ("Ophthalmology Longmu Lun"), the cicada has retreated ("Lin Hui Prescription") "Guide to Syndrome"), rice insect shell ("Guizhou Folk Prescription Collection"), chirping monkey skin, chirping skin ("Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine"), zhizhi skin, hot skin, and hemp bird skin ("Chinese Medicine Chronicles").

Characteristics

The overall shape is like a cicada, hollow and slightly curved. It is about 3 to 4 cm long and 1.5 to 2 cm wide. The surface is dark brown, translucent, shiny, and covered with black-brown or yellow-brown fine hairs. The head has one pair of antennae, which are filamentous and mostly broken off; the compound eyes are protruding and transparent; the forehead is protruding; the upper lip is wide and short, and the lower lip is extended into a tube shape. The back of the thorax is split longitudinally or cross-shaped; there are two pairs of small wings on the left and right, the front pair is longer and the back pair is shorter; there are 3 pairs of feet on the ventral surface, the apex of the forefoot leg and tibia are serrated, and the apex of the toggle joint has 2 There are small spines, and the tooth spines are all dark brown; the middle feet and hind feet are both slender. The abdomen is oblate; the penis is divided into 9 segments, and the tail end is triangular and blunt. Light, membranous, hollow, brittle. The smell is weak and the taste is light. The best ones are yellow in color, light in body, complete, and free of mud and sand.

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Mainly produced in Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Hubei, Jiangsu, Sichuan and other places. Shandong has the largest output.

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Remove impurities, wash and dry. "Compendium": "When used to shed the shell, boil the soup to wash off the soil, wings, and feet, boil the pulp in water, and dry it in the sun." The nature and flavor are sweet, salty, and cool. ① "Compendium": "Salty and sweet, cold, non-toxic." ② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Slightly sweet and slightly salty taste, slightly cool in nature." ③ "Wang Jie Yao Jie": "Spicy in taste, flat in qi." Return It enters the lung and liver meridians. ① "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Enter the liver." ② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Enter the liver, spleen, and lung meridians."

Functions and Indications

Dispersing wind and heat, Xuanfei, calm spasm. Treats exogenous wind-heat, hoarse cough, measles, rubella and pruritus, epilepsy in children, red eyes, nebula, swollen boils and tetanus. The process of cicada sloughing

① "Bielu": "It is mainly used for childhood epilepsy; gray clothing is mainly used for chronic dysentery." ② "Treatise on the Properties of Medicine": "It can cure epilepsy with strong heat and convulsions all over the body in children, and it can also quench thirst." ③ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Grind, one Qian Dagger, take with water from well flowers, it treats mute disease." ④ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Treat hazy eyes. Also decoct the shell juice in water to treat sores and rashes in children." ⑤ "Compendium": "Treatment of wind and dizziness in the head, wind-heat of the skin, itching of acne and rash, tetanus and swollen sores, loss of voice in adults, silence in children, crying at night, and vaginal swelling." Usage and Dosage Oral administration. : Decoction, 1 to 2 qian; or make into pills or powder. External use: decoct in water and wash or grind into powder for application. Pregnant women should not take it with caution. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Jaundice and rash with deficiency and cold syndrome cannot be taken." Selection of prescriptions ① Treat the initial onset of wind-heat, new feeling of wind-heat, winter temperature attacking the lungs, and cough: Mint costs one cent and five cents, cicada costs one cent (remove enough , wings), fenugreek is one cent and five cents, light black bean paste is four cents, melon shell is two cents, and burdock root is one cent and five cents. Decoct and take. ("Shi Bing Lun" method of relieving pungent and cold symptoms) ② To treat coughs and unfavorable lung qi stagnation: cicada shells (remove soil, lightly stir-fry), ginseng (remove reeds), one or two schisandra chinensis, tangerine peel, licorice (broiled) each Half a pound. *** is fine powder. Take half a penny each time, take ginger soup, no time. ("Pediatric Health Micro-Essay" Cicada Shell Decoction) ③ To treat colds and coughs and aphonia: 1 qian of cicada, 3 qian of burdock, 1 qian of licorice, and 1 5 cents of platycodon. Take it with decoction. ("Modern Practical Traditional Chinese Medicine") ④ To treat unpleasant acne sores: divide comfrey, cicada slough, Akebia, peony, and licorice (broiled) into equal parts. Take 2 qian each time, decoction in water. ("Pediatric Acne Prescriptions" Kuai Tuo Powder) ⑤ To treat chronic itching of the skin of Fengqi patients: divide cicada slough and mint leaves into equal parts. For the end. Mix one qian dagger with wine and take it three times a day. ("Yao Seng Tan Collection of Prescriptions") ⑥ To treat fever, itching and scratching after acne: one or two pieces each of Cicada and Digupi. For the end. Take two or three spoons each time with white wine two or three times. ("Chishui Xuanzhu" Cicada Flower Powder) ⑦ To treat epilepsy and convulsions caused by fever: half a tael of cicada shells (remove soil and stir-fry), half a tael of ginseng (remove reeds), one point of skullcap, one point of Poria, and one point of Cimicifuga. Divide the above into fine powder; one point of bezoar (grind separately), one cent of Tianzhu yellow (grind), and one point of oyster (grind). The same as above, evenly and finely, use half a penny each, fry the nepeta and mint soup and drink it, no time. ("General Prescriptions for Pediatric Hygiene" Cicada Shell Powder) ⑧Treatment of celiac disease in children with head and head looking up and internal heat due to phlegm congestion: Boil the slurry in water for one day, dry it in the sun and make powder. Take one word each time and mix it with cold water. ("Easy Prescriptions for Hygiene") 9. To treat muteness in children and muteness in newborns: 27 cicadas and 27 whole scorpions. To the end, add a little light powder and mix with milk. ("Quan Yin Xin Jian") ⑩Cure children's cries at night: retreat 27 cicadas and a little cinnabar. At the end of the day, make honey pills and let your child suck them. ("Chishui Xuanzhu" Cicada Tuiuo Ointment) Or use forty-nine sloughs of cicadas, cut off the front, grind the latter into powder, take it in four times, and mix it with Uncaria Decoction. ⑾Cure tetanus: Cicada sloughing (removal of soil) does not take much. For fine powder. Mix it on the sores and the poison will disperse by itself. (Zhui Feng Powder from "Yang's Family Prescription") ⑿ To treat scabies that enter the eyes or cause nebula after illness: cut cicada slough (wash and remove soil) and white chrysanthemum into equal parts. Take two qian for each dose, a cup of water, add a little honey and fry it. After feeding, measure the size of the baby. ("Pediatric Acne Prescriptions" Cicada Ju Powder) ⒀Treatment of cataracts: dragon retreat (i.e. snake skin), cicada retreat, phoenix retreat (bird, flower and chicken egg shell), human retreat, Buddha shed (ie silkworm paper).

Divide it into equal portions, no matter how much, burn them together into ashes, and grind them into fine powder. For one penny per serving, eat hot pork liver. Take three servings a day regardless of the time. (Wutai San in "Ophthalmology Longmu Lun") Chrysanthemum tea with cicada shed

⒁Cure boils: divide the cicada shells and white silkworms into equal parts. Apply the powder on top, mix vinegar and apply it all around, leaving the sore open. When the root comes out a little longer, then pull out the root, and then apply medicine on the sore. Don't use vinegar on one side, use oil to coat it. ("Sheng Hui Fang" Cicada Slough) Or stir-fry cicada slough into powder, mix it with honey water for 1 penny, mix it with saliva and apply it to the affected area. ⒂Cure Scrofula: Open the walnut, take out half of the flesh, fill it with cicada slough, seal it with loess mud, tie it tightly with iron wire, bake it on a slow fire until the mud falls off, then grind the walnut into fine flour and use rice wine as a guide. Take it with boiling water. Take one pill in the morning every day for 100 days. ("Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Hebei") ⒃ To treat pus in earworms: half a liang of cicada (burned and stored), half a qian of musk (fried). The top is the end, wrapped in cotton and stuffed, chasing out evil things. ("Haifangfang") ⒄To treat vaginal swelling in children: Slough off half a pair of cicadas, boil them in water and wash them; still take Wuling Powder, the swelling and pain will subside. ("Effective Prescriptions of World Medical Doctors") (Mostly caused by sitting on the ground, being hit by wind, or being injured by insects and ants) ⒅ Newborn children, mute and unable to breastfeed. Use a dozen sloughed cicadas and a dozen whole scorpions (detoxified), grind them into powder, add a little light powder, mix the milk thoroughly and pour it down. ⒆Tetanus (fever). Stir-fry it with cicada slough, grind it into powder, and drink it with one penny of wine. It is very effective. Another prescription: grind the powder into powder, add onion saliva and mix thoroughly, apply it to the broken area, and the bad water will flow out, it will take effect immediately. This prescription is called "Zhui Feng San". ⒇For stomach heat and vomiting, use fifty cicada sloughs (removed of mud), one tael of talc, grind the powder into powder, take two qian each time, take a bowl of water, add honey and mix it. This prescription is called "Qingge Powder"