Cicada slough

[Explanation] 1. The shell of a cicada sheds when its larvae turn into adults.

2. Metaphor of liberation.

English name PERIOSTRACUM CICADAE

Also known as cicada retreat, cicada clothing, insect slough, cicada shell, grasshopper skin, cicada skin, golden cow

Source book The 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 in the sun.

Characteristics: 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: Bitter, 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.

Contraindications: Pregnant women should use with caution.

Storage] Store in a dry place to prevent pressure.

Odor: salty, sweet, cold, non-toxic.

Remarks

(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. It is often used with peppermint and the like for superficial wind-heat syndrome. 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 throat swelling and pain caused by exogenous wind and heat. It has the effect of dispelling wind and 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 and lack of lung qi. Its function of detoxifying the lungs and opening 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 and the like; for convulsions and children crying at night and epilepsy and uneasiness, it can be used with Uncaria and the same. .

Cicada slough

("Medicine Theory")

Synonyms: cicada ("Zhuangzi"), cicada shell, fuxing, withered cicada ("Bielu") 》), the cicada peels off its skin ("Supplementary Materials on Materia Medica"), the cicada peels off its shell ("Sheng Hui Prescription"), the golden cow's worm ("Easy Simple Prescriptions for Hygiene"), the cicada retreats ("Ophthalmology Longmu Lun"), the cicada's clothing ( "Clinical Guide"), rice insect shell ("Guizhou Folk Prescription Collection"), chirping monkey skin, chirping skin ("Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine"), zhizhi skin, hot skin, hemp bird skin ("Chinese Medicine Chronicles") .

The whole shape of the medicinal material 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 fine black-brown or yellow-brown 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.

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

Pharmacological effects ①Anti-convulsant effect

Cicada Slough and Wuhu Zhuifeng Powder (Cicada Slough, Tianma, Nanxing, Cinnabar, Bombyx, and Scorpion) are effective against tetanus toxin caused by tetanus toxin. Rabbit tetanus, whether given at the same time as tetanus toxin injection or after the onset of systemic tetanus symptoms, can prolong the average survival time of infected animals, but it does not prevent them from dying. Cicada slough extract and bee slough decoction have a slightly delayed effect on the death time of mice injected with tetanus toxin. The decoctions of Cicada Slough and Wuhuzhuifeng Powder can prevent the death of mice from convulsions caused by strychnine, cocaine and nicotine, and partially eliminate the muscle tremors caused by nicotine. Wuhuzhuifeng Powder can still resist the convulsions caused by cardiazo die.

②Sedative effect

Cicada Slough and Wuhu Zhuifeng Powder can inhibit the free movement of mice and have a synergistic effect with cyclohexobarbital sodium; at the same time, they can cause a decrease in rabbit activity , quietness, decreased striated muscle tone, slow righting reflex and other systemic reactions.

③Cicada slough decoction can block the conduction of the sympathetic ganglion on the cat's neck, but has no effect on adrenergic receptors and the antihypertensive response of acetylcholine.

Prepare to remove impurities, wash and dry.

"Compendium": "When using the shell, boil the soup to wash away the soil, wings, and feet, boil the pulp in water, and dry it in the sun."

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 Catalpa Medicinal Solution": "It tastes pungent and has flat Qi."

Returns into 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: Dissipating wind-heat, revitalizing the lungs, and relieving convulsions. Treats exogenous wind-heat, hoarse cough, measles, rubella and pruritus, epilepsy in children, red eyes, nebula, swollen boils and tetanus.

① "Bie Lu": "It is mainly used for childhood epilepsy; gray clothes is mainly used for chronic dysentery."

② "Treatise on the Properties of Medicine": "It can treat epilepsy with strong heat and convulsions all over the body in children. Quenching thirst. "

③ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Grind, one Qian Dagger, taken with Jinghua water, treat mute disease."

④ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Treatment. Dizzy eyes. Decoct the shell juice in water to treat sores and rashes in children. "

⑤"Compendium": "Treatment of head wind, dizziness, skin wind-heat, itching of acne and rash, and treatment of tetanus. Swelling and poisonous sores, adults losing their voice, children being silent and crying at night, swollen vagina. "

Usage and dosage Oral administration: decoction, 1 to 2 qian; or take into pills or powder. External use: decoct in water and wash or grind into powder for application.

It should be avoided and taken with caution by pregnant women.

"Compendium of Materia Medica": "It should not be taken for patients with jaundice and rash due to deficiency and cold syndrome."

Choose prescriptions ① Treat the initial onset of wind-heat, new feelings of wind-heat, winter temperature attacking the lungs, and cough : Mint costs 1 cent and 5 cents, cicada costs 1 cent (feet and wings are removed), fenugreek costs 1 cent and 5 cents, light tempeh costs 4 cents, melon shells cost 2 cents, and burdock seeds cost 1 cent and 5 cents. Decoct and take. (Method for relieving pungent and cool symptoms in "Shi Bing Lun")

②Cure cough and unfavorable lung qi stagnation: one or two pieces each of cicada shells (remove soil and lightly stir-fry), ginseng (remove reeds), and schisandra chinensis, Half and half tangerine peel and licorice (broiled). *** is fine powder. Take half a penny each time, take ginger soup, no time. ("Pediatric Health General Prescriptions" Cicada Shell Decoction)

③ To treat colds and coughs and aphonia: 1 qian of cicada clothes, 3 qian of burdock seeds, 1 qian of licorice, 1 qian and 5 cents of platycodon. Take it with decoction. ("Modern Practical Chinese Medicine")

④ To treat unpleasant acne sores: divide Lithospermum sinensis, cicada slough, Akebia, peony, and licorice 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 guests: 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 Sengtan's Collection of Prescriptions")

⑥ To treat post-acne fever, itching and scratching: one or two pieces each of Cicadae 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 due to severe fever: half a tael of cicada shells (remove soil and stir-fry), half a tael of ginseng (remove reeds), 1 part of skullcap, poria One point of Shen, one point of Cimicifuga, the above fine powder; one point of Bezoar (Grind separately), one point of Tianzhu Huang (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. ("Children's General Micro-Essay on Prescriptions" Cicada Shell Powder)

⑧Treatment of diarrhea in children, head and head looking up, phlegm congestion and internal heat: Boil the slurry in water for one day, dry in the sun and make powder, take each dose One word, cold water.

("Easy Prescriptions for Hygiene")

⑨ To treat muteness in children and newborn mouth and mouth failure: 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 night cries: 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 Paste) 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: no amount of cicada sloughing (removal of soil) is needed. For fine powder. Mix it on the sore, and the poison will disperse by itself. ("Yang's Family Prescription" Zhui Feng Powder)

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 2 qian per serving, a cup of water, add a little honey and fry it. After feeding, measure the size of the baby. ("Pediatric Acne Prescriptions" Chanju Powder)

⒀Cure cataracts: dragon retreat (i.e. snake skin), cicada retreat, phoenix retreat (bird flower chicken egg shell), human retreat, Buddha shed (i.e. 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. (Wutui San in "Ophthalmology Longmu Lun")

⒁Treatment of boils: cut the cicada shells and white silkworms into equal parts. Apply the powder on the top, mix it with vinegar and apply it all around, leaving a sore. When the root comes out a little longer, 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.

⒂Treatment of 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 pieces For noodles, use rice wine as a guide, mix it with boiling water, and take one pill in the morning every day for 100 days. ("Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Hebei")

⒃ To treat pus in the ear: half a liang of cicada (burned and preserved), half a penny of musk (fried). The top is the end, wrapped in cotton and stuffed, chasing out evil things. ("Over the Sea")

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, wind attack, or injuries from insects and ants)

⒅ Newborn children are silent 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 sloughs, grind it into powder, and drink it with one penny of wine. It is very effective. Another prescription: Sludge and grind the powder into powder, add green onion saliva and mix thoroughly, apply it to the broken area, and the bad water will flow out, and it will take effect immediately. This prescription is called "Zhui Feng San".

⒇For stomach heat and vomiting food, use fifty cicada sloughs (remove mud), one tael of talc, grind the powder into powder, take 2 qian each time, add a bowl of water, add honey, this recipe is Named "Qing Ge Powder"

Clinical Application ① Treatment of Tetanus

Take a cicada, remove its head and feet, bake it and grind it finely. Adults should take it 3 times a day, 3 to 5 yuan each time, mixed with 2 ounces of rice wine. For children, reduce the dosage. At the same time, acupuncture, sedatives, antibiotics, etc. are given, and a tracheotomy is performed if necessary. 24 to 48 hours after taking the medicine, the whole body often sweats and flushes, followed by scattered small rashes all over the body, and the body temperature rises. If the total number of white blood cells is not high, no special treatment is needed, but attention must be paid to replenishing water. After the paroxysmal convulsions stop, the dosage can be reduced as appropriate. The drug can be stopped when the patient can open his mouth freely and the persistent spasm of the back and abdominal muscles disappears. 29 cases were treated clinically, and only 1 case died.

②Treatment of chronic urticaria

Wash the cicada slough, dry it, stir-fry it, grind into powder, sieve, and refine the honey into pills, each pill weighing 3 qian; or take the cicada slough 2 parts, 1 part Tribulus terrestris, appropriate amount of honey, make pills, each pill weighs 3 qian, take 2 to 3 times a day, 1 pill each time, with warm water. Thirty cases of chronic urticaria were treated, 7 cases were cured, 15 cases were markedly effective, and 5 cases were improved. In effective cases, symptoms will improve after taking the medicine for 2 to 3 days; the skin lesions will gradually subside; after taking the medicine for 5 to 7 days, the symptoms and skin lesions will disappear completely or basically disappear; continuing to take the medicine for 15 to 20 days will consolidate the curative effect and prevent recurrence.

③Treatment of suppurative otitis

Take 1 cicada slough, roast it, grind it finely, add 1 minute of borneol and 8 minutes of light powder, mix thoroughly and set aside. Clean the affected ear with hydrogen peroxide first. Then blow in an appropriate amount of cicada powder once a day. If symptoms such as dizziness and nausea are found, discontinue use immediately. After treatment, 19 cases were cured and 6 cases were cured. The remaining 13 cases had unknown effects due to interruption of treatment.

Treatment of angioedema with cicada

This disease is also called giant urticaria. It is localized edema caused by the dilation and increased permeability of small blood vessels in the skin and mucous membranes. Most of them are allergies. Edema caused by allergies after mosquito bites is also one of the types. It mostly occurs in loose parts at the junction of mucous membrane and skin, such as eyelids, lips, scrotum and foreskin, etc. The skin in the edema area is tense, shiny, unclear, and the foreskin Light red or pale. There are swelling, numbness, itching and other discomforts due to edema. The author uses cicada slough as the main ingredient for oral administration, which is often more effective than antihistamine preparations. It can be used internally and externally for faster effect. It cannot be taken orally with single-flavor decoction. The effect can be seen immediately after application.

Attached recipe: 15g of cicada, Bupleurum, 10g of Fangfeng, 10g of Plantago, 10g of Cortex Phellodendri, 6g of Liuyi Powder, 10g of decoction in water.

Cicada of Slough It has an antitussive effect

Cicada slough can relieve coughs, especially those with itchy throat. It can quickly relieve the itching and relieve coughs. It can be used regardless of wind, cold or wind heat. If there is a scratchy throat when coughing, 10 grams of cicada slough, decoction and decoction alone is very effective.

Cicada slough is used for cough and asthma

This product is light and thin and returns to the lung meridian. It can clear away heat and dissipate wind, open up lung qi, When lung qi is diffused, the airways will be unobstructed, phlegm and dampness will be transformed, and adverse qi will be reduced, thereby achieving the purpose of relieving asthma, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. It can be used clinically in prescriptions for relieving asthma, cough and resolving phlegm, which can improve the efficacy.

Cicada slough is used for tinnitus and deafness

Additional prescription: 15g cicada slough. 15g chrysanthemum. 15g white tribulus. 10g kudzu. 10g red spoon. 10g paeonol. 15g adenophora. 10 grams of branches decocted in water

In the prescription, the cicada sheds to clear away wind and heat in the liver meridian, clears the ears and apertures, and makes the ears clear and ringing. The branches of chrysanthemum and tribulus help the cicada shed to clear away heat and disperse wind, and the kudzu root promotes clear yang. Red spoon Danpi cools blood, dissipates blood and unblocks meridians, and Adenophora ginseng nourishes yin and clears away heat. Clinically, it can be modified or subtracted according to the symptoms, and good results have been achieved.

Cicada sloughing cures hydrocele

The disease belongs to the liver meridian Stagnation, when water and dampness stops accumulating, causes water hernia. Use 30 grams of medicinal cicada slough, decoct it in water and apply local heat 3-4 times a day. It will be half healed the next day and disappear the next day. Cloud cicada slough can cure "yin swelling"< /p>

Cicada sloughing to treat infants crying at night

For infants who cry at night and are troublesome but without organic or infectious diseases, use 15-20 grams of cicada sloughing, boil it in water and add sugar, and feed it before going to bed , you can sleep peacefully.

Famous experts discussed ① "Compendium": "Cicada is mainly used to treat all wind-heat syndromes. The ancients used it on the body, and later generations used sloughing. Generally, the body of cicada should be used to treat the internal organs and meridians. To treat skin sores and wind-heat, cicada slough should be used. "

② Zhang Shouyi said: "Cicada slough is mainly used for infantile epilepsy, and it covers infantile epilepsy. There is a lot of internal heat, which is the so-called blood and blood in Su Wen. When the qi merges and crosses above, it becomes thin and cold. It treats the cold and coolness, and lowers the qi and fire to prevent it from rising. This is the true meaning of being able to treat epilepsy. Zhen Quan said that cicada sloughing can treat strong fever in children, which means the same The same. For the nebula of the eyes and acne in children, if there is excess heat, cold can overcome the heat, so Bihu is also said to treat acne and itching. It is suitable for those with excess heat, such as those with qi deficiency and itching. Do not mix. "

Cicada and cicada sloughing process

"Cicada" is an insect. The scientific name is cicada. The largest cicada is 4 to 4.8 centimeters long and has dark brown wing bases. In summer, it screams loudly on trees and uses its needle mouthparts to suck sap. The larvae live in the soil and suck sap from tree roots, which is harmful to trees. The shells shed by cicadas can be used as medicinal materials.

Cicadas are large plant-sucking insects, usually about five or six centimeters long. Their hollow, needle-like mouths can be pierced into trees and suck out sap. There are also different species of cicadas, with similar shapes and different colors. There are three less sensitive eye spots in the middle of the cicada's eyes, and the wings are simply supported by thin tubes. These are primitive characteristics of ancient insect populations.

The soprano in the cicada family is a type of cicada known as the "double drummer." There are large ring-shaped sound-producing organs on both sides of its body, and the middle part of its body is a disc that can be opened and closed internally and externally. The disk opens and closes very quickly, which is what makes the trembling cicada chirp. The sound lacks variety, but is much louder than the call of a jungle canary.

The cicada's pupa spends the first two or three years of its life underground, perhaps longer. During this time, it sucks fluids from the roots of trees. Then one day he broke out of the ground and relied on his survival instinct to find a tree and climb up. After several years of slow growth, the cicada pupa crawls out of the ground as an energy storage body. Its front paws, which are used for digging burrows, can also be used for climbing.

The process of molting begins when a black crack appears on the cicada's back. Molting is controlled by a hormone. The front legs of the cicada pupa are hook-shaped, so that when the adult emerges from the empty shell, it can hang firmly on the tree. It is very important that the cicada pupa faces the tree vertically. This is for the normal development of the adult wings, otherwise the wings will develop abnormally. The cicada uses the pupa shell as a foundation and slowly extricates itself, just like crawling out of a suit of armor. The whole process takes about an hour.

When the cicada's upper body is free, it hangs upside down with its wings spread out. At this stage, the cicada's wings are very soft and they spread through the fluid tubes in them. The body fluid pressure causes the wings to expand. When the liquid is pumped back into the cicada's body, the outstretched wings have hardened. If a cicada is disturbed while its wings are unfolding, the cicada will be disabled for life and may not be able to fly at all.

Cicada sloughing is the last time a cicada sheds its skin after being unearthed. Cicada slough is a traditional Chinese medicine.