There is an idiom called the golden cicada sheds its shell. In fact, the golden cicada is an edible insect. The cicada slough is a part of the golden cicada. It not only has edible value, but also has medicinal value. Many people think that the cicada slough is disgusting. Many people don’t eat it, but the nutritional value of cicada slough is quite high and it has the effect of curing diseases. So what are the effects of cicada slough? How can cicada slough be eaten?
1. The value of cicada slough
Cicada slough is sweet, salty, cool in nature, and enters the liver and lung meridian. It has the functions of dispersing wind and heat, dispelling wind and relieving itching, clearing the throat, improving eyesight and reducing nebula, calming and relieving spasm. It can treat summer wind-heat colds, dry and sore throats, hoarseness, red eyes, acute and chronic convulsions, tetanus, rubella, and itching.
2. Cicada slough treatment prescription
1. Treat rubella and skin itching.
Ingredients cicada slough and mint are equal parts.
Usage Grind these two drugs together into powder, take 6g each time with rice wine, 3 times a day. Or directly take 9g of cicada slough and 9g of mint, put it into a casserole and add appropriate amount of water to boil, pour it into a cup instead of tea, add boiling water after drinking and continue brewing, one dose a day.
2. Treat wind-heat, cold and cough.
Ingredients: 3g of cicada slough, 5g of peppermint, 5g of burdock, 5g of burdock, 6g of trichosanthes husk, and 12g of light tempeh.
Instructions: Put these medicines into a casserole, add water and soak for about 2 hours. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 20 minutes, strain out the soup, add water and simmer for another 20 minutes. Mix the two medicinal decoctions and take them 2 to 3 times, one dose a day.
3. Treat urticaria.
Ingredients: 2 parts of cicada slough, 1 part of tribulus terrestris, and appropriate amount of honey.
Usage Grind the cicada slough and tribulus terrestris together into very fine powder, add a small amount of water and mix into a moist medicinal paste (the surface of the medicinal powder only needs to be moist, do not clump), put it into a basin and keep it away from water. Steam thoroughly, dry to the appropriate temperature, add appropriate amount of honey and mix thoroughly, seal and set aside. Take 9g each time, before meals, 2 to 3 times a day.
3. The effects of cicada sloughing
1. It can dispel wind and clear away heat, calm the liver and relieve spasm, and is mainly used to treat febrile convulsions in children.
Children have "baby yin and baby yang", which means they have a "pure yang" body, and "the liver is often excessive and the spleen is often insufficient." Exogenous wind-heat or heat poison can easily enter the body and transform into heat and fire. Extreme heat can cause wind and convulsions can occur. Cicada slough can dispel wind and clear away heat, soothe the liver and relieve spasm. When combined with uncaria, mint, silkworm, forsythia, honeysuckle, gardenia and schizonepeta, it can often "turn danger into safety".
2. It can relieve wind and relieve symptoms, relieve sore throat and relieve cough. It is mainly used to treat itchy throat and frequent cough.
Feeling wind-cold, which turns into heat, or feeling wind-heat evil, leading to stagnation of the lungs and defenses, resulting in dry throat, itchy throat, and frequent coughing. In this case, you can use cicada to remove the wind from the surface and remove the wind from the throat to stop the cough. It can also be used in combination with burdock, mint, forsythia, platycodon, almond, perilla leaf, mulberry leaf, Schizonepeta, Pediculus, and Shegan for better efficacy.
3. It can relieve superficial rashes, dispel wind and relieve itching, and is mainly used to treat various rashes.
Measles, scarlet fever, and rubella all belong to the category of wind-warm diseases. If the rash is not smooth in the early stage or itches during the rash stage, you can use cicada slough combined with kudzu root, mint, forsythia, honeysuckle, and nepeta to treat it. The effect is good.
4. It can relieve wind and spasm, relieve asthma and relieve cough, and is mainly used to treat various types of asthma.
Traditional Chinese medicine treats asthma by extinguishing wind and relieving spasm to relieve asthma and cough. Clinically, cicada exfoliation is commonly used in combination with Dilong, Danxing, Ephedra, Almond, Gypsum, Licorice, Pinellia ternata, Asarum, dried ginger, and Schisandra chinensis, with remarkable results.
5. It can dispel wind and dampness, diuresis and swelling, and is mainly used to treat water hernia in children.
Pediatric hydrocele is testicular hydrocele. In children, "liver excess" is often caused by crying and panic, which leads to disordered liver qi, abnormal drainage, stagnation of qi, loss of energy in the triple burner, and accumulation of water and dampness along the liver meridian in women's private parts. Commonly used is 30 grams of cicada, boiled in water and washed with hot compress. Generally, the condition can be cured after 3 days of external application.