The skin of grasshopper can be used to make medicine.

The grasshopper is cold in nature, fragrant in flavor, has the function of dispersing wind and promoting lungs, relieving heat and settling fright, etc. The grasshopper is nutritious and tasty, which makes it a fashionable delicacy, and it is more often fried and eaten by people. Crawling grasshopper skin, that is, the cicada shell can be used as medicine. Its whole shape resembles a cicada but is hollow and slightly curved. It is about 100px long and 50px wide, with a yellowish-brown, translucent and shiny surface.

The head has 1 pair of filiform antennae, which are mostly broken off, the compound eyes are prominent, the apex of the neck is prominent, the muzzle is well developed, the upper lip is broad and short, and the lower lip is elongated into a tube. Thorax dorsally cross-shaped lobes, fissures curled inward, with 2 pairs of small wings on either side of the spine; ventral surface with 3 pairs of feet, covered with fine yellowish brown hairs. Abdomen bluntly rounded, ***9-segmented. Body light, hollow, friable. Odorless, tasteless.

Extended Information:

The shell of the robin is actually the cicada molt, which was first seen in the "Famous Medical Doctors' Record", and is also known as the product armor, the voltaic dragon, and the voltaic shell. It is the shell of the cicada after the cicada insect 黒蚱, a member of the family Cicadidae. In summer and fall, it can be collected on the ground near the trees where the cicadas live, or on the trunks of trees. Cicada shell is light, hollow and fragile. It contains a large amount of chitin and proteins, amino acids, organic acids.

Cicada molts have been found to have very strong antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus by ethyl acetate of cicada molts. These results indicate that there is antibiotic activity in insect extracts, which are potential natural antibiotics with certain development prospects.

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