When it comes to cicadas, you may not be unfamiliar with them, but cicada molting is the shell of cicada when its larva becomes an adult. When I was a child, I often picked up cicada shells to play. In fact, cicada exuviate is a good medicine, which can be used as medicine. What are the effects and functions of cicada exuviate?
Modern pharmacological studies have found that cicada exuviate has good anticonvulsant and sedative effects. Cicada exuviate, although very inconspicuous, but if it is clear in pharmacology, compatibility, use of the right method, often can be seen in the strange, satisfactory results. The common functions are as follows:
1、 It can relieve the wind and clear the heat, calm the liver and relieve the spasm, and is mainly used to treat children with febrile convulsion.
Children's "childish Yin and childish Yang" is the body of "pure Yang", and "liver is often surplus, spleen is often insufficient". Exogenous wind heat or heat toxin are very easy to enter into the heat of the fire, and the heat of the wind can produce exhaust. Cicada exuviation can relieve wind and heat, calm liver and relieve spasm. With uncaria, mint, Bombyx mori, forsythia, honeysuckle, gardenia and Schizonepeta, it can often 'save lives'.
2、 It can be used to relieve the exterior wind, relieve the throat and cough, and is mainly used to treat the throat itching and frequent cough.
Feel the wind cold, turn the heat into the interior, or feel the evil of the wind heat, which leads to the stagnation of the lung Wei, resulting in dry throat itching and frequent coughing. In this case, cicadas can be used to slough away the wind and relieve the symptoms, while the throat wind can stop coughing. It can also be used in combination with burdock, mint, forsythia, Platycodon grandiflorum, almond, Soviet leaf, mulberry leaf, Schizonepeta, Qianhu and Shegan, with better effect.
3、 It can relieve superficial and penetrating rash, dispel wind and stop itching, and treat various rashes.
Measles, Anabaena, rubella belong to the category of febrile diseases. If the rash is not smooth or itchy in the early stage, cicada exuviate can be used with Pueraria, mint, forsythia, honeysuckle, Schizonepeta, etc., with good effect.
4、 It can quench wind and stop spasm, relieve asthma and cough, and mainly treat all kinds of asthma.
Traditional Chinese medicine treats asthma by calming the wind and stopping the spasm. In clinic, cicada exuviation is often used in combination with earthworm, Danxing, roasted ephedra, almond, gypsum, roasted licorice, faban pinellia, asarum, dried ginger and Schisandra, with remarkable effect.
5、 It can dispel wind and dehumidification, promote water and reduce swelling, and mainly treat children's water hernia.
Water hernia in children is hydrocele of testis. Children's' liver is often surplus', which is often caused by crying and panic, which leads to disorder of liver qi, disorder of relieving, stagnation of Qi mechanism, loss of division of Triple Energizer gasification, and accumulation of water and dampness along the liver meridian in the Yin. Commonly used cicada clothing 30 grams, water decoct outside wash hot compress, general external use 3 days can heal.