The shell (skin) that the cicada sheds when its larva turns into an adult is a medicine, used in Chinese medicine as an antipyretic and sedative.

Cicada molt means the shell (skin) that the cicada sheds when its larva turns into an adult, and is a medicine, used in Chinese medicine as an antipyretic and sedative. It is a metaphor for liberation. Cicada molting.

From "The Records of the Grand Historian - Qu Yuan Jia Sheng Liezhuan": "Since the rusty Nao sludge, cicada molting in the turbid filth, in order to float outside the dust."

The head of the cicada has one pair of filiform antennae, which are mostly broken off, compound eyes protruding, the apex of the neck protruding, the muzzle well-developed, the upper lip broad and short, and the lower lip elongated into a tube. The back of the thorax is cross-shaped lobes, the fissures are curled inward, the spine has two pairs of small wings on both sides; the ventral surface has three pairs of feet, covered with yellowish brown fine hairs. The abdomen is bluntly rounded. Functions: Dispersing wind-heat, clearing the throat through rashes, reducing cataracts and brightening the eyes, dispelling wind and relieving spasm.