The uses are as follows:
(1) It is used for external wind-heat, fever and cold, cough, as well as rubella, itchy skin and other diseases. Cicada metamorphosis has the effect of evacuating wind-heat, used for wind-heat episodes are often used with mint and so on; the itchy wind rash also has the function of eliminating wind and stopping 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) It is 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, 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 in the eyes after measles, and can be used with chrysanthemum, glutinosa, 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, tetanus with convulsions of the limbs, can be used with scorpion, etc.; on the convulsions of the wind, pediatric night crying with epilepsy and restlessness, can be used with hooker and so on.