Cicada Shells for Rhinitis Treatment

Cicadas are animals that only appear in summer, and once they live in summer, they will chirp non-stop on tree branches. During the period of cicada's survival, it needs to shed its shell. The shell shed from the shell is also a very good Chinese medicinal material and is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. For patients with rhinitis, they will look for many ways to treat rhinitis. If cicada shells are used to treat rhinitis, will it work?

Can cicada shells cure allergic rhinitis?

Cicada shells have a certain effect on the treatment of allergic rhinitis. Allergic rhinitis is a very troublesome disease and requires formal and systematic treatment. Currently, there is no specific medicine that can cure it. Preventive measures are very important, and the most important thing for effective prevention is to strengthen physical exercise. According to Chinese medicine, it is mainly due to the weak lung defense and invasion of external evil. If the treatment is improper or not timely, it will recur and the symptoms will gradually worsen.

What diseases can cicada shells cure?

First: Treatment of febrile convulsions in children

Since cicada shells can dispel wind and heat and have the effect of calming the liver and relieving spasms after consumption, children's bodies are purely yang in traditional Chinese medicine and it is easy for them to suffer from insufficient spleen and stomach function. If the body suffers from fever caused by exogenous wind-heat or heat toxins invading the body, cicada shells can be used for treatment. In addition to using this medicinal material directly, we can also use cicada shells together with mint, forsythia, honeysuckle, gardenia, Uncaria rhynchophylla, etc. in our daily life, so that the body can recover more quickly.

Second: Treat various asthma

Asthma is a chronic disease that cannot be cured by taking short-term medication, so many people prefer to use traditional Chinese medicine for treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine treats asthma mostly by taking some Chinese herbal medicines that have the effect of calming wind and stopping convulsions to achieve the purpose of relieving asthma and cough, and cicada shells have just this effect. If you want to treat asthma better in life, you can use cicada shells together with earthworms, roasted ephedra, almonds, roasted licorice or dried ginger, schisandra chinensis, etc., and the effect will be immediate.

Third: Treatment of various rashes

If this kind of rash occurs in life, including wind-heat diseases such as rubella, measles and scarlet fever, then you can take cicada shells together with Pueraria lobata, mint, honeysuckle, forsythia, and Schizonepeta tenuifolia for good results. However, the effect will be better if you take it early in the morning before the rash appears.

Fourth: Treating itchy throat and cough

Why do we have problems like itchy throat and cough? Experts tell us that this is because the wind-cold invades the body and causes fever, or the wind-heat evil invades the body and affects the health of the lungs, resulting in dry and itchy throat and cough. In the face of this symptom, we should make use of the efficacy of cicada sloughs soaked in water to drink, and make use of the role of this medicinal material in dispelling wind and relieving exterior symptoms as well as relieving sore throat and cough. Cicada sloughs can be used in combination with mint, forsythia, platycodon, burdock, schizonepeta and belamcanda.

Fifth: Treatment of hydrocele in children

Hydrocele in children is actually hydrocele of the testicles. As the liver is often in excess in children, if they are distressed or frightened in life, it is easy to cause liver qi disorder and abnormal secretion. If this continues for a long time, it will cause the liver meridian to squeeze the genitals and cause diseases. If a child has hydrocele, the editor recommends taking out an appropriate amount of cicada shells and boiling them with clean water. The resulting medicinal liquid can be used for fumigation and hot compress on the hernia area. Generally, the effect can be seen after three days of persistence.

Sixth: Sedative effect

Scientists tested the alcohol extract of cicada shells and found a very obvious sedative effect. Tests on mice showed that it can effectively reduce spontaneous activities, and it is also very good at antagonizing the excitatory effects of caffeine, effectively prolonging the sleep time of animals. The same symptoms were also found in experiments on rabbits. It can effectively reduce activities and make them quieter. The tension of skeletal muscles will decrease and reflexes will become slower. The sedative effect is very good.

How to prevent allergic rhinitis

1. Pay attention to the cleanliness of the air in the working and living environment, and avoid contact with dust and chemical gases, especially harmful gases.

2. Strengthen nutrition and enhance positive energy.

3. Strengthen exercise and improve physical fitness. Exercise can improve blood circulation and prevent blood flow in the nasal concha from being blocked.

4. Keep warm. Climate change can easily cause colds and rhinitis.

5. Reduce the irritation of cold air to the nasal mucosa and wear a mask when appropriate. After taking a bath, you should try to dry your hair before going to sleep to avoid catching a cold.

6. Cure the lesions and thoroughly treat chronic diseases such as tonsillitis and sinusitis.