Cicada metamorphosis and fritillary have no obvious contraindications, can be taken together to play the effect of evacuating wind-heat, clearing heat and removing toxins.
1. Cicada molt is the skin shell of the black grasshopper insect of the cicada family, which is shed when it is feathered. It is cold in nature and sweet in flavor. It belongs to the lung and liver meridians. Its effects include dispersing wind-heat, brightening the eyes and reducing cataracts (improving eyesight and blurred vision), calming wind and stopping spasm (calming wind and relieving spasm), clearing the throat and opening up the voice, transmitting rashes, and calming and tranquilizing the mind.
Clinically, it can be used for the treatment of wind-heat cold, sore throat, impenetrable measles, acute and slow convulsions (acute and chronic pediatric diseases mainly manifested by dizziness, convulsions, and convulsions), and children’s night cries. Adverse reactions are not clear, pregnant women should be used with caution.
2. Fishy grass is the fresh whole grass or dried ground part of Houttuynia cordata, family Sambucus. It is slightly cold in nature and pungent in flavor. It belongs to the lung meridian. Its effects are clearing away heat and removing toxins, eliminating carbuncles and draining pus, diuretic and diaphoretic (to improve the problem of dribbling urine, and the problem of small and incomprehensible amount of urine).
It can be used clinically to treat lung carbuncles, heat sores and carbuncles (sores and carbuncles appearing on the surface of the skin due to excessive heat and toxins in the body), damp-heat gonorrhea (increased frequency of urination, drenching and astringent pain), diarrhea and dysentery, and so on. It should not be taken by people with deficiency cold and yin evidence of sores and ulcers.
When discomfort occurs, one should consult a doctor in time and choose medication under the doctor’s guidance, and should not use medication on one’s own, so as not to cause damage to the organism.