ChanTui+(Cicada+Moulting)

[[image:Chan_Tui.jpg width="235" height="374" align="right"]]Chan Tui (Cicada Moulting)
Category: Acrid Cool Herbs to Release the Exterior Nature: Slightly Cold Flavor: sweet & salty Channels: LU, LR

Functions: disperse wind-heat; **express skin eruption & stop itching**; clear eyes by removing nebula; relieve convulsion by subduing LR wind Ind: 1. fever, headache, sore throat, cough and **hoarse voice** due to wind-heat attack in the early stages of warm diseases 2. Slow skin eruption in the early stage of measles or in the disease caused by wind-heat. **Skin itching** 3. Red eyes, tearing in the eye and nebula in the eye due to wind-heat attack of the LR (**Clears eyes, stops spasms**) 4. **morbid night crying of babies** due to LR wind-heat attack or tetanus

Dose 3 -10g. [grind before decocting] Contra: caution in pregnancy/ history of miscarriage Misc: Classically used to promote birth/placental expulsion; Works on the Wei and Ying levels,
 * Good for weak patients that cannot handle other ext. releasing herbs**