It can be used to treat hoarseness, sore throat, fever and wind, headache and thirst. It can also treat impenetrable measles and itchy rubella as well as red cataracts of the eyes. In addition to this, it can also treat children's acute and slow convulsions, tetanus evidence, children's night cries and so on. The dosage of the decoction is between 3g-6g. It should be noted that pregnant women need to be used with caution.

The shell that cicadas shed when they change from larvae to adults. Yan Zhiwei of the Northern Qi "Yan's family training - the name of the real": "The God is extinguished form disappears, the sound of the aftermath of the price, but also like the cicada shell_skin, animal_bird trace ear." Ming Li Shizhen, "Compendium of Materia Medica - Bugs III - Grasshopper": "Wherever moulted shells are used, boiling soup is used to wash away the soil, wings and feet, and the water is boiled in syrup and dried in the sun." See "cicada molt".