When you say cicada, you should mean cicada. See Baidu Encyclopedia for details, and copy the following parts for reference.

correlation studies

Studies at home and abroad show that cicada flower has multiple effects of improving immunity, resisting fatigue, protecting kidney, improving sleep, resisting tumor, protecting liver, resisting radiation and improving eyesight, and it is a magical ancient Chinese medicine. The cultured cicada flower contains mannitol 2. 18%, polysaccharide 2 1.73%, amino acid 19.76%, cordycepin 0.005% and adenosine 0.05%, which is similar to natural cordyceps sinensis, but no toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury and lead are detected. Therefore, cicada flower can be used as a substitute for Cordyceps sinensis, and it can also achieve the function of nourishing and preserving health.

Nourishing and strengthening effect

The results reported by Chen Wanqun and others show that the amino acids of cicada flower are similar to those of many kinds of Cordyceps sinensis, and the content is consistent. Scholars recognize that various amino acids are one of the material bases for nourishing and strengthening, and pharmacological experiments have proved that amino acids of cicada flower and various cordyceps sinensis have different degrees of nourishing effects.

Anti-fatigue and anti-stress effects

The water decoction of cicada flower can obviously prolong the swimming time of experimental mice and significantly improve the survival time under normal pressure and high temperature, which proves that cicada flower has anti-fatigue and anti-stress effects.

Sedative hypnotic effect

After administration of 1h, the number of spontaneous activities in the cicada flower group was significantly less than that in the control group. Cicada can also significantly prolong the sleep time of mice and shorten the disappearance time of pentobarbital sodium righting reflex; Cicada can also improve the sleep rate of mice in unit time. This proves that cicada flower has a good sedative and hypnotic effect. At the same time, it is proved that the effect of artificial culture is similar to that of natural cicada.

Antipyretic and analgesic effects

Cicada has obvious cooling effect on normal and artificially heated rats within 2 hours after administration. The results of writhing method and hot plate method show that cicada flower has a very significant inhibitory effect on chemical and burning stimulation pain in mice. This proves that cicada flower has a good antipyretic and analgesic effect. Both this experiment and Chen Zhuan's experiment prove that the artificial culture of cicada flower has the same effect.

Immunomodulatory effect

The mycelium of cicada flower was produced by artificial fermentation and polysaccharide was extracted from it. Taking Cordyceps polysaccharide as positive control and Grifola frondosa polysaccharide as reference test, lymphocyte transformation test, Ea and E rose test and specific immune rose test (macrophage phagocytosis test, anti-sheep red blood cell (SRBC) antibody titer test) were carried out on mice. The results showed that polysaccharide from cicada flower had obvious effect on improving immune function.

Improve renal function

The clinical application of Professor Chen Yiping from Longhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Director Derek lv from the Department of Internal Medicine confirmed that the cicada flower has the functions of reducing serum and urine creatinine, increasing endogenous creatinine clearance rate, increasing serum protein content and reducing urinary protein excretion. Therefore, it is effective for patients with chronic renal insufficiency in the early and middle stages. Further research confirmed that cicada flower has a good effect on tubulointerstitial lesions, which can protect renal tubular cells Na+-K+-ATPase, reduce lysosomal injury and lipid peroxidation, improve renal hemodynamics, and reduce endothelial cell injury and coagulation function. Therefore, it is considered that cicada flower can improve renal function.