This "bug" that everyone hates can actually cure children's diseases

Cicadas are widely distributed in most provinces and regions of my country, and are particularly abundant in the Central Plains. They can be eaten and used as medicine.

After the cicada pupa emerges from the ground, it sheds a layer of skin when it turns into a cicada. This layer of skin is called cicada molt, which has high medicinal value. It is sweet and cold in nature, and enters the lung and liver meridians. It has the effects of dispersing wind-heat, clearing rashes, relieving sore throat and opening voice, improving eyesight and removing cataracts, and calming the nerves and stopping convulsions.

Cicada is a unique medicine for treating diseases and is an important traditional Chinese medicine for relieving exterior syndrome. According to the "Chinese Materia Medica", cicada shells can also improve sperm quality and strengthen yang, quench thirst and promote salivation, protect the lungs and benefit the kidneys, have anti-bacterial and blood pressure-lowering effects, treat baldness and inhibit cancer. Not only is cicada shell a commonly used Chinese medicine, but in ancient times the bodies of adult cicadas were also often used as medicine.

Li Shizhen said: "People nowadays only know how to use cicada shells, but don't know how to use cicada shells." It is particularly worth mentioning that cicada shells, as pediatric medicines, can not only dissipate heat, but are also particularly suitable for children's liver meridian wind-heat, irritability, convulsions, and twitching.

Cicada fungus has the effects of protecting lungs and kidneys, stopping bleeding and reducing phlegm, antibacterial and blood pressure lowering, as well as curing baldness and inhibiting cancer.

Cicadas can also secrete essence and replenish yang, quench thirst and produce body fluid, eliminate cold and heat, and treat childhood epilepsy, throat and vocal cord diseases, etc.

Cicadas are also a unique seasonal food in summer. Adult cicadas can be fried and eaten, but their taste and nutritional value are not as good as their larvae, the golden cicada. Golden cicada is rich in nutrients and is known as Tang Monk's meat.

Although cicadas are delicious, you should not eat too many of them. The skin of cicadas is a very hard shell. If people with poor stomachs eat too much, it may cause indigestion and may even lead to constipation.