Editing Cicada (section)

=== As food and folk medicine ===
[[file:deepfried cicada.jpg|thumb|Deep-fried ''Cryptotympana atrata'' in [[Shandong cuisine]]]]
Cicadas were eaten in [[Ancient Greece]], and are consumed in selected regions in modern [[China]], both as adults and (more often) as nymphs.<ref name="Simoons1990">{{cite book |last=Simoons |first=Frederick J. |title=Food in China: A Cultural and Historical Inquiry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fo087ZxohA4C&pg=PA334 |date= 1990 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-8493-8804-0 |page=334}}</ref> Cicadas are also eaten in [[Malaysia]], [[Burma]], North America, and central Africa, as well as the [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]] region of [[Pakistan]], especially in [[Ziarat]].<ref>{{Citation|title=Taazan – Cicada – How to Cook ? – Ziarat |location=Balochistan, Pakistan|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPMlpOqsZiM| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/xPMlpOqsZiM| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|website=YouTube.com|date=2 August 2019 |language=ur|access-date=2019-08-25}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Female cicadas are prized for being meatier.<ref name= "insecteducation" /> Shells of cicadas are employed in [[traditional Chinese medicine]]s,<ref>[[Li Shizhen]], [[Bencao Gangmu]], Section of Insect. 李时珍, 本草纲目, 虫部</ref> claiming that they possess anti-convulsive, sedative, and hypothermic effects.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hsieh |first1=M.T. |last2=Peng |first2=W.H. |last3=Yeh |first3=F.T. |last4=Tsai |first4=H.Y. |last5=Chang |first5=Y.S. |date=July 11, 1991 |title=Studies on the anticonvulsive, sedative and hypothermic effects of Periostracum Cicadae extracts |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-8741(91)90136-2 |journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=83–90 |doi=10.1016/0378-8741(91)90136-2 |pmid=1753798 |via=Science Direct}}</ref> The 17-year "Onondaga Brood"<ref>{{cite web |title=Brood VII: The Onondaga Brood |url=http://magicicada.org/magicicada/brood_07/ |website=Periodical Cicadas |access-date=1 June 2018 |archive-date=30 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130074057/http://magicicada.org/magicicada/brood_07/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Magicicada'' is culturally important and a particular delicacy to the [[Onondaga people]],<ref>{{cite web |author=Dehowähda•dih |title=Ogweñ•yó'da' déñ'se' Hanadagá•yas: The Cicada and George Washington |url=http://www.onondaganation.org/blog/2018/ogwen%E2%80%A2yoda-dense-hanadaga%E2%80%A2yas-the-cicada-and-george-washington/ |website=Onondaga Nation Website |access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> and are considered a novelty food item by modern consumers in several states.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cicadas-brood-x-eating-food-delicacy/|title=The cicadas are coming — and foodies are getting ready to feast|website=[[CBS News]]|date=25 May 2021 }}</ref>