Cicadas, as well as silkworms and snakes, must go through ecdysis to grow up ”Getting Away Like the Cicada Sloughing 1Is Skin” is one of the ”36 Strategies” it is a military topic. Cicadae Periostracum is applied in traditional Chinese medicine and has positive effects on treatment of skin disease. The diseased skin can be moved away easily just like a cicada sloughing its skin. The patients with skin diseases (including cataract) were restored to health.