What are the benefits of cicada shell?

Cicada shell is a relatively precious Chinese medicinal material. It can help people treat many diseases clinically, especially after a cold, when symptoms of cough appear. At this time, eating some cicada shell can exert its therapeutic effect. Don’t think that cicada shell has only this effect. In fact, cicada shell has more practical effects, and patients need to learn more about it. So, what are the benefits of cicada shells?

Cicada shells are the shells shed by cicada larvae when they turn into adults. They have the effects of dispersing wind-heat, clearing rashes and relieving sore throats, improving eyesight and removing cataracts, and dispelling wind and stopping convulsions. It is used for wind-heat cold, sore throat, hoarseness, measles that do not break out, itching of rubella, red eyes and cataracts, convulsions and tetanus. Pregnant women should take with caution. Other names: cicada shell, cicada shell, hidden shell, dead cicada, cicada shell, cicada skin, cicada shell, golden bull, cicada retreat, cicada shed, cicada clothes, rice bug shell, chirping monkey skin, chirping skin, cicada skin, hot skin, hemp bird skin, fairy clothes.

1. Cicada shells are used for exogenous wind-heat, fever, chills, cough, rashes, skin itching and other symptoms. Cicada shells have the effect of dispersing wind-heat, and are often used in combination with mint for wind-heat symptoms. They also have the function of dispelling wind and relieving itching caused by rashes.

2. Cicada slough is used to treat red and swollen eyes and opacity of the eyes. This product has the effect of improving eyesight and removing cataracts caused by wind-heat, as well as cataracts after measles. It can be used in combination with chrysanthemum, herbaceous vine, and tribulus terrestris.

3. Cicada shells are used to treat tetanus, infantile convulsions, night crying, etc. Cicada shells can both dispel external wind and calm internal wind, relieve convulsions and relieve spasms. For tetanus with convulsions of limbs, it can be used together with scorpion; for convulsions and night crying in children with epilepsy and restlessness, it can be used together with Uncaria rhynchophylla.

4. Cicada shells are used to treat sore throat and hoarseness. The sore throat treated by cicada shell is generally caused by external wind-heat, because it has the effect of dispelling wind-heat and relieving throat. It is often used in combination with mint, burdock, forsythia, platycodon, and licorice. As for the treatment of hoarseness, it is more appropriate to use herbs that are caused by wind evil stagnation in the lungs and failure of lung qi to be released. It can take advantage of its ability to open up the lungs and improve voice, and is often used together with Platycodon grandiflorum, Jade Butterfly, and Sterculia lychnophora.

5. Cicada shells are used to treat measles that has difficulty in breaking out. Cicada shells can clear away heat and have the effect of clearing away wind and heat. Because they mainly relieve wind and heat, they are mostly used for patients with measles who have difficulty in clearing out the rash at the beginning. They are often used together with burdock seeds and mint. However, if the heat is severe and the rash is not clearing out smoothly, they can also be used with lithospermum officinale and forsythia suspensa.