The function of robin's shell: clearing away wind and heat, clearing the eyes and cataracts, and resolving convulsions and antispasmodic. Used for external wind-heat, cough mute, throat, measles, rubella scratching; wind-heat or hepatitis caused by eye redness and swelling, eye cataracts; pediatric fever convulsions, tetanus limb convulsions.

Extended information:

From the Treatise on Medicinal Properties, for the black grasshopper, family Cicadidae, the molt of the cicada after feathering. Herbal properties: slightly oval and curved, about 3.5cm long, about 2cm wide, yellowish brown surface, translucent, shiny. The head has 1 pair of filiform antennae, mostly broken off, and the compound eyes are prominent. The apex of the forehead is prominent, the muzzle is well developed, the upper lip is broad and short, and the lower lip is elongated into a tube.

The dorsal surface of the thorax is cruciformly cleft, the cleft curling inward, with 2 pairs of small wings on either side of the spine; the ventral surface has 3 pairs of feet, covered with fine yellowish brown hairs. Abdominal tunic rounded, ****9-segmented. Body light, hollow, fragile. Odorless, tasteless. Harvesting and processing: collected in spring and fall. Remove the sediment, sun-dried.

The robin, also known as the cicada, is an insect. Its species are more, the male cicada abdomen has a vocalizer, can continuously emit a loud sound, female cicadas although in the abdomen also has a vocalizer, but can not make a sound. Representative species of the cicada family of insects. The male has a vocalizer on its abdomen that can emit a sharp sound continuously.

The female does not make a sound, but has a hearing apparatus in the abdomen. The larvae live in the soil and suck the roots of plants, and the adults eat the juice of plants. Cicadas belong to the imperfect metamorphosis class, from eggs, larvae (wakame), after several molts, without passing through the chrysalis period and become adults.

Attendance

It is used for wind-heat colds, the first signs of warm diseases, sore throat and hoarseness, impenetrable measles, itchy rubella, red cataracts of the eyes, acute and slow convulsions, tetanus evidence, and children's night cries and restlessness.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia: Cicada Molt