(1) Used for external wind-heat, fever and cold, cough, and rubella, itchy skin and other diseases. Cicada shells have the effect of evacuating wind-heat, used for wind-heat episodes are often used with mint, etc.; the itchy wind rash also has the function of eliminating wind and relieving itching.

(2) It is used for measles with poor transmittance. Cicada metamorphosis transmits and has the effect of clearing heat, because it is mainly for the wind heat, so it is used for the measles at the beginning of the transmitting unobstructed mostly, often with burdock, mint, but if the heat is full of the rash is not unobstructed, and can be matched with comfrey, forsythia, and so on application.

(3) used for sore throat and hoarseness. Cicada metamorphosis treatment of sore throat is generally outside the wind-heat caused by the appropriate, because of its wind-heat, the role of the throat, more with mint, burdock, forsythia, Platycodon grandiflorus, licorice with the application. As for the treatment of mute, it is appropriate to the wind and evil lungs, lung gas caused by the loss of publicity, take its lungs to open the sound of the function, often combined with the Platycodonopsis, jade butterfly, fat sea with the same use.

(4) It is used to treat redness and swelling of the eyes, as well as cataracts covering the eyes. This product has the effect of brightening the eyes and reducing the cataracts on the eyes caused by wind-heat, cataracts, and cataracts of the eyes after measles, and can be used with chrysanthemum, grain essence grass, tribulus terrestris and so on.

(5) It is used for tetanus, pediatric convulsions, and nocturnal cries. Cicada metamorphosis can not only dispel external wind, but also rest the internal wind and spasmodic convulsions, tetanus, with the whole scorpion and so on; on the convulsions of wind, children's night cries with epilepsy and restlessness, can be used with hooker's vine and so on.