What can be cured by boiling cicada shells in water?

When summer comes, the cicadas in the trees begin to sing. In traditional Chinese medicine, cicada shell is actually a very powerful Chinese medicinal herb. The herbal tea we often drink in summer contains cicada shells. When the human body has throat discomfort due to external wind-heat, you can boil cicada shells in water and drink it, which can help relieve throat pain. In addition, boiling water with cicada shells can also have a certain therapeutic effect on measles.

1. The efficacy of cicada shell

Cicada shell, whose Chinese medicine name is cicada molt, cicada retreat, and cicada skin, is sweet and cold in nature and enters the lung and liver meridians. Its main effects are to dispel wind and heat, detoxify and cure rashes, improve eyesight and eliminate semen, relieve spasms and relieve itching. It is also a commonly used medicine for herbal tea, used for exogenous wind-heat, hoarse cough, sore throat, measles, rubella scratching; red, swollen and painful eyes caused by wind-heat or hepatitis, eye cataracts; high fever convulsions in children, and tetanus limb convulsions.

1. Used together with mint, burdock, honeysuckle, forsythia, etc., it can be used for symptoms such as redness, swelling and pain in the throat, hoarseness, etc. caused by wind-heat and fire toxins.

2. Used together with chrysanthemum, tribulus terrestris, cassia seed, plantain seed, etc., it can be used to treat symptoms such as red, swollen and painful eyes, and cataracts covering the eyes caused by wind-heat or liver-fire.

3. The role of the cicada shell

1. 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. Used for measles with poor outbreaks. 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.

3. Used for symptoms such as 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.

4. Used for 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.

5. Used for 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. What can be cured by boiling cicada shells in water?

Cicada shells can be soaked in water and drunk. Drinking it in water can dispel wind and heat, relieve sore throat, clear rashes, remove cataracts, and relieve spasms. 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.