What is the medicinal value of cicada shell?

Also known as cicada slough. Sweet in nature: cold. Enter lung meridian and liver meridian. Indications: dispelling wind and clearing heat, relieving sore throat and penetrating rash, relieving phlegm and spasmolysis. Used for wind-heat cold, sore throat, hoarseness, measles, rubella itching, red eyes, convulsion and tetanus.

Extended data:

Cicada, the name of Chinese medicine. It is like a cicada, hollow and slightly curved. It is about 100px long and 50px wide. The surface is yellowish brown, translucent and shiny. There are/kloc-0 pairs of filiform antennae in the head, most of which have been broken, with prominent compound eyes, prominent neck tip, developed nose and mouth, wide and short upper lip and elongated lower lip into a tube shape. There are cruciform leaves on the chest and back, and the cracks roll inward, and there are 2 pairs of winglets on both sides of the back; There are three pairs of feet on the ventral surface, covered with fine yellow-brown hair. The abdomen is blunt and round, with 9 knots. Light, hollow and fragile. Odorless and tasteless. Functions: expelling wind and clearing heat, penetrating rash and relieving sore throat, eliminating phlegm and improving eyesight, expelling wind and relieving spasm.

Correlation compatibility

1, mixed with mint, burdock, honeysuckle and forsythia, can be used for sore throat and hoarseness caused by wind-heat toxin.

2. It is equivalent to Schizonepeta, Saposhnikovia divaricata and Sophora flavescens, and can be used for rheumatism, skin soaking, blood, skin itching and other diseases.

3. It is equivalent to chrysanthemum, tribulus terrestris, cassia seed and plantain seed, and can be used for symptoms such as eye swelling, pain and veins caused by wind-heat attack or liver fire.

4. It is equivalent to Gastrodia elata, Bombyx Batryticatus, Scorpio and Rhizoma Arisaematis, and can be used for tetanus, such as clenching teeth, limb twitching and rigidity.

References:

Cicada _ Baidu Encyclopedia