Cicada Molts Cicada molts are the shells of the cicada insects, such as the black grasshopper, which are shed when they fledge. Cicada molt has the meaning of "retreating" and "shedding", so this herb is called Cicada Molt. In China, the black grasshopper is mainly distributed in North China, East China and Central and South China provinces, mostly inhabiting in willow, poplar, maple poplar and other trees, sucking the sap in the trees. Cicada molt is slightly oval and curved, about 3.5 cm long, about 2 cm wide, yellowish brown, translucent, glossy, light, hollow, fragile, with the wind to remove heat, diaphoretic, through the rashes and antispasmodic effect, the main treatment of wind-heat colds, sore throat, measles impermeable and convulsions and other diseases.
Medicinal use of this product for the cicada insects such as black grasshopper larvae after feathering the shedding of the shell.
The properties and attributes are sweet and cold. It enters the lung and liver meridians.
Effects dispersing wind-heat, clearing the throat, relieving cataract, and tranquilizing epilepsy.
Clinical Applications
1. It is used in treating external wind-heat, fever, malignant cold, cough, rubella and itchy skin.
Cicada metamorphosis has the effect of evacuating wind-heat, used for wind-heat episodes are often used with mint, etc.; it also has the function of dispelling wind and relieving itching of wind rash.
2. It is used for measles with poor penetration.
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 rash out of the unobstructed, and can be matched with comfrey, forsythia, and so on application.
3. It is used for sore throat and hoarseness.
Cicada metamorphosis for sore throat is generally outside the wind-heat caused by the appropriate, because of its wind-heat, the role of the throat, more and more with mint, burdock, forsythia, platycodonopsis, licorice with the application. As for the treatment of mute, it is appropriate to the wind evil depressed 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, and cataract covers the eyes.
This product has the effect of brightening the eyes and eliminating cataracts in the eyes caused by wind-heat, cataracts, and cataracts of the eyes after measles, it can be used with chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum, tribulus terrestris and so on.
5. It is used for tetanus, pediatric convulsions, and night crying.
Cicada metamorphosis can not only dispel external wind, but also rest the internal wind and spasmodic, tetanus with convulsions of the limbs, can be used with scorpion and so on; on the convulsions of the wind, pediatric night crowing with epilepsy and restlessness, can be used with hooker's vine and so on.
Prescription name cicada molt, cicada retreat, cicada yi, net cicada yi (all washed, raw.)
General Dosage and Administration One to two qian, decoction. For the treatment of tetanus, it can be used from five qian to one tael.
Formulas Examples of Cicada Molt San "Shen's Zunsheng": cicada molt, mint. Cure cold, wind-heat, itchy skin and other conditions.
Cicada Flower Dispersion (Zhen Zhi Zun Sheng): Cicada, Qiangwu, Chrysanthemum, Gou Jing Cao, Tribulus terrestris, Fangfeng, Mimulus, Cao Zhuming, Scutellaria baicalensis, Brambleberry, Gardenia, Mucuna pruriens, Thorny mustard, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Glycyrrhiza glabra. Treating wind-heat attacking from the liver meridian, redness and swelling of the eyes, and cataract covering the eyes.