Among them, the most widely implemented was the method of consumption.
Locusts could be used in medicine and had medicinal value:
According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, locusts can be used alone or in combination to treat various diseases, such as tetanus, pediatric wind attack, fever, asthma relief, distension, cormorant fever, frostbite, bronchitis, and prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Ten locusts can be boiled into soup for consumption, or fried and ground into powder for oral use, five locusts per dose. For frostbite, the fried powder mixed with sesame oil can be applied to the affected area.
