? However, you must know that there have been frequent cases of unfortunate poisoning due to eating "cicada flowers" in various places recently, mainly manifested as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, dizziness, numbness of limbs and other symptoms. There is more than one kind of cicada, and there are also many kinds of fungi that infect cicadas, which may form a variety of "cicada flowers", but their shapes are similar, so it is difficult to distinguish the good from the bad. However, you should be careful what medicine you take, and try to seek the advice of Chinese medicine first.
Golden cicada flower, also known as cicada fungus and cicada pupa grass, is a wonderful creature with animal and plant characteristics. Its roots are cicada pupae or cicada larvae, and flowers grow from the heads of single or 2-3 cicada larvae, about one inch long, and bloom and branch from the top. Ascot seats are single or 2-3 bunches from the front end of the main body. It is 2.5-6 cm long, hollow, with a yellowish brown stalk, dark yellowish brown after drying, with a diameter of 1.5-4 mm, sometimes with sterile small branches, and its head is rod-shaped and yellowish brown, with a light rotten leaf color after drying, with a length of 7-28 mm and a diameter of 2-7 mm. Ascomycetes are embedded in Ascomycetes, and the orifice is slightly prominent and oval. It has multiple transverse partitions and then splits into single cell fragments with the size of 8-16 μ m×1-1.5 μ m. According to related research, cicada flower is a biological and pathological phenomenon, which is a combination of insects and bacteria. When autumn comes, cicadas burrow into the soil and gradually become cicada pupae. Before emergence, they were parasitized by Cordyceps sinensis. When the spare parts used in daily life are suitable, they begin to germinate into mycelium and absorb the nutrition of insects. Finally, the insect body is completely occupied by mycelium, leaving only one body. Everything revived, and the mycelium changed from vegetative stage to sexual stage, and gradually blossomed and branched from the top, hence the name cicada flower. According to the book of traditional Chinese medicine, cicada flower contains a lot of chitin and nitrogen, which can reduce the tension of reverse melon and striated muscle and have a negative effect on ganglion. Cicada, our country folk has long been used in * * seeing things unclear, children crying at night and so on. Nowadays, the medicinal effects of cicada flower are constantly being discovered, such as dispelling wind and clearing heat, relieving convulsion and stopping spasm. It has become a rare medicine in people's minds. Cold in nature, sweet in taste and non-toxic. It can relieve pain, dispel wind and heat, remove obstacles and penetrate rash.
Tropism: salty, sweet and cold. Liver meridian. Clear eyes and eyesight, soothe the nerves and stop spasms. Used for nebula, epilepsy, children's night crying, measles. The usual dosage is 3 ~ 10g.
Indications: Liver meridian. Clear eyes and eyesight, soothe the nerves and stop spasms. Used for nebula, epilepsy, children's night crying, measles.
Usage and dosage: usually the dosage is 3 ~ 10g.