The medicinal value of the shell of robin's egg: dispel wind-heat, penetrate rash and benefit the pharynx, reduce cataract and brighten the eyes, dispel wind and stop spasm.

Cicada shell, Chinese medicine. Its whole shape like a cicada and hollow, slightly curved. Length about 100px, width about 50px. surface yellowish brown, translucent, shiny. Cicada molt to the cicada insect black grasshopper plumage after the molt into medicine, Chinese medicine that its cool taste sweet, salty, there is the propagation of wind-heat, through the rash of pharyngeal and cataracts and the efficacy of the purpose, clinically used for wind-heat colds, sore throat, rubella itching and convulsions and other symptoms of the disease treatment.

Grasshopper alias: robin, well Kirikou clarification, black old wow wow, the larval stage called climb climb, climb pull monkeys, cicada monkeys, monkey, know monkey, knot monkey, meat cow, and so on. Cicada molt, for the cicada family insects black grasshopper larvae feathering off the shell. Collected in summer and fall, remove the sediment and dry in the sun.

Part of the Effects: Dispersing wind-heat, clearing rashes, inducing diaphoresis, opening the voice, brightening the eyes, and reducing cataracts.

Part of the effects: for wind-heat colds, sore throat and mute voice, impenetrable measles, red cataracts in the eyes, and children's night cries and restlessness.

Contraindications for use: pregnant women should take Cicada Shell with caution.

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Nutritional Value of Mockingbird

Golden Cicadas, with its high nutritional value, has a reputation as the meat of the Tang Dynasty. Because of the high nutritional value of the golden cicada and the unique style of good taste, as well as the human body to play a variety of nourishing medicinal function, the folk have long been eating the golden cicada is compared to let a person live forever "monk meat".

Cicada larvae contain protein than any animal meat and eggs are much higher; and because it also contains a variety of nutrients essential to the human body, to promote growth and development, replenish the body metabolism of the consumption of the body, patients with physical weakness recovery, etc., have excellent auxiliary therapeutic effect, so it has become a rare natural pollution-free high-level nutritional food.

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