Periostracum Cicadae is a commonly used component of traditional Chinese medicine, which is salty and sweet in taste and cold in nature, and belongs to lung and liver meridians. Mainly used for treating wind-heat cold, sore throat, hoarseness, measles, rubella itching, red eyes, convulsion, tetanus and other diseases. Modern pharmacological studies have found that cicada slough has good anticonvulsant and sedative effects. Although cicada slough as a medicine is very humble, if it is properly compatible and used, it can often be seen in the ordinary and achieve satisfactory results. ?
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It is like a cicada, hollow and slightly curved. It is about 100px long and 50px wide. The surface is yellowish brown, translucent and shiny. There are/kloc-0 pairs of filiform antennae in the head, most of which have been broken, with prominent compound eyes, prominent neck tip, developed nose and mouth, wide and short upper lip and elongated lower lip into a tube shape.
There are cruciform leaves on the chest and back, and the cracks roll inward, and there are 2 pairs of winglets on both sides of the back; There are three pairs of feet on the ventral surface, covered with fine yellow-brown hair. The abdomen is blunt and round, with 9 knots. Light, hollow and fragile. Odorless and tasteless. Functions: expelling wind and clearing heat, penetrating rash and relieving sore throat, eliminating phlegm and improving eyesight, expelling wind and relieving spasm.
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