Cicada Slough and its Application:How to use the Slough of Cryptotympana pubricius?
Article Content:
- .Basic Botanical Data Info:Cicada Slough or Periostracum Cicadae.
- .Brief Description:Cicada.
- .Origin:Cicada and Its Slough.
- .Cicada Slough Phytochemicals and Constituents.
- .Property and Functions:Cicada Slough.
- .Cicada Slough Indications and Combinations.
- .Applications:Cicada Slough.
- .Cicada Slough Suggestions and Administrations:.
- .Referential Advice:Cicada Slough.
- .Research Update:Periostracum Cicadae or Cicada Slough.
Property and Functions:Cicada Slough.
Properties:
Sweet in flavor, cold in nature, it is related to the lung and liver channels.
Cicada Slough is sweet in flavour, cold in nature and acts on the lung and liver channels. Light in quality for lifting and floating effects, it can disperse pathogenic wind-heat from the lung channel, promote eruption and relieve sore throat. It is an important drug to treat upward attack by wind-heat, sore throat and hoarseness. Sweet and cold in nature for clearing heat from the liver and dispelling pathogenic wind to relieve spasm, it can be used to treat infantile convulsion.
Functions:
Dispels pathogenic wind-heat, promotes eruption, relieves itching, improves acuity of vision, removes nebula (a white spot or a slight opacity of the cornea) and checks spasms.
To disperse wind and clear heat.
To bring the rash to the surface and relieve itching.
To clear eyes.
To stop spasms.
Pharmacological Properties:
1.Cancer Inhibition: Inhibition ratio over than 90% for sarcoma-180 bearing mice and human cervical cancer JTC-26.
2.Sedative Effects: Decoction of cicada slough shows calm and sedative effects,inhibition of mice activity observed,inhibition of rabbit activity observed,make rabbit calm,striated muscle tension decreased.
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1.Cicada Slough and its Application:How to use the Slough of Cryptotympana pubricius?




