Cicada molt Cicada molt is the skin shell shed by the cicada insects, such as black grasshoppers, when they are feathered. Cicada molt has the meaning of "retreating" and "shedding", so this herb is called cicada molt. In China, the black grasshopper is mainly distributed in North China, East China and Central and South China provinces, mostly inhabiting in willow, poplar, maple poplar and other trees, sucking the sap in the trees. Cicada molt is slightly oval and curved, about 3.5 cm long, about 2 cm wide, yellowish brown, translucent, glossy, light, hollow, fragile, with the efficacy of dispersing wind and heat, relieving pharyngeal, penetrating rashes and antispasmodic, and is mainly used for treating wind-heat colds, sore throats, impenetrable measles, and convulsion of wind and convulsions.

Medicinal use of this product for the cicada family insects, such as black grasshopper larvae after plumage of the shedding of the shell.

Taste and Attributes Sweet and cold. It enters the lung and liver meridians.

Effective in dispersing wind-heat, clearing the throat, retracting cataracts, and settling epilepsy.

Clinical application

1. Used for external wind-heat, fever, malignant cold, cough, as well as rubella, itching of the skin.

Cicada has the function of dispersing wind-heat, which is often used in conjunction with peppermint for wind-heat epidemics; it also has the function of dispersing wind-heat and relieving itchiness for wind rash.

2. It is used for measles with poor penetration.

Cicada methysticum is used to clear heat by transmitting hair, because it is mainly used to relieve wind-heat, so it is used for measles with poor transmitting, often used with burdock and mint; but if the heat is not smooth, it can be used with comfrey and forsythia.

3. For sore throat and hoarseness.

Cicada metabolism is generally suitable for sore throat caused by exogenous wind-heat, because it has the role of wind-heat, throat, more with mint, burdock, forsythia, Platycodon grandiflorum, licorice with the application. As for the treatment of mute, it is appropriate to wind evil Yu lung, lung gas caused by the loss of publicity, to take its lungs to open the sound of the work, often combined with the Platycodonopsis, jade butterfly, fat sea with the same.

4. It is used for eye redness and swelling, cataract covering the eyes.

This product on the wind-heat caused by the eye red, cataract, and measles cataracts, cataracts, has the effect of brightening the eyes and retracting cataracts, can be used with chrysanthemums, grass, tribulus terrestris and other applications.

5. It is used for tetanus, pediatric convulsion, and night crying.

Cicada metamorphosis can dispel the external wind, but also rest the internal wind and spasmodic, tetanus with convulsions of the limbs, can be used with scorpion and so on; on the convulsions of the wind, pediatric night crowing with epilepsy and restlessness, can be used with hooker's vine and so on.