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*The Xin* records: It is used to remove corneal opacities (翳膜), taking advantage of its symbolic meaning.
*Ri Hua Zi* records: It stops vomiting and regurgitation, treats infantile palpitations due to fright, *ke wu* (a condition in infants caused by external pathogenic factors leading to fright), and induces labor. For sores and vitiligo, decoct the juice for external application. When used in medicine, it should be processed by roasting.

*The Xin* records: Its therapeutic effects are the same as those of snake slough.
*Yao Xing Lun* records: It serves as an envoy drug. It treats infantile high fever with convulsions and epilepsy, and also relieves thirst. It further records: The shed skin of the cicada has a horn-like projection on its head, resembling a crown, called "cicada flower" (Chan Hua), which is of the best quality. It is sweet in taste and cold in nature. Non-toxic. It mainly treats infantile tetanus (Tian Diao), convulsions, spasms, night crying, and palpitations.

Salty, pungent, neutral in nature. Non-toxic.
*Ben Cao* records: It mainly treats infantile convulsions and night crying, removes three types of parasites, eliminates black spots, and improves complexion. It treats male genital sores, female metrorrhagia (Beng Zhong) with red and white discharge, and postpartum residual pain. It eliminates scars from various sores. It grows in river valleys and flat marshes. Collect the dead snakes in April; do not let them get damp. Damp ones are toxic and cannot be used.

Pungent, cold in nature. Toxic.
*Ben Cao* records: It treats chills and fever, *gui zhu gu du* (ghostly infections and蛊毒, referring to infectious or parasitic diseases), scrofula (Shu Lou), scabies and tinea, malignant sores with ulceration and necrosis, and dead flesh. It breaks up lithiasis with urinary retention (Shi Long), blood stasis, damages human muscle, and causes abortion. It is inhibited by Croton seed (Badou).

*Ben Cao* records: It treats various wind-induced itching and urticaria (Feng Sao Yin Zhen), scabies and tinea, skin numbness, stubborn bi-syndrome, and other wind disorders. When used, it should be roasted. It can be incorporated into pills and powders, soaked in wine, or made into ointments. It has three ridges on its back, is black as lacquer, has a gentle nature, and does not bite objects. In Jiangdong, there is the black rat snake (Hei Shao She), which can constrict objects to death; it belongs to the same category. It grows in Shangluo Mountain.

Sweet, warm in nature. Non-toxic.
*Ben Cao* records: It treats cold qi in the heart and abdomen, the five kinds of childhood malnutrition syndromes (Wu Gang), wards off epidemics, treats intestinal wind (blood in stool), promotes the flow of qi and vessels, and treats amenorrhea in women. It originates from northern regions; this is the feces of the cold-number bird (Hanhao Chong).

*Ye* records: It treats malignant sores, carbuncles, toxic swellings, and all sores with a root. To make an ointment: use silk cloth the size of a hand, along with honeycomb (Lu Feng Fang), curved thorns, about two cun of rotten grass joints, and tangled hair. Burn them to ash. It mainly treats carbuncles and swelling. It also treats newborns whose umbilical cords have not yet fallen off, presenting with swelling, pain, and weeping; burn the material, grind it into powder, finely process it, and apply externally. Additionally, five-colored silk treats nocturnal sweating; after wiping dry, discard the part with five directional heads. Zhang Zhongjing uses it in formulas for treating falls from horses and all kinds of bone and tendon injuries.