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Recently, the industry using insects is in the spotlight, and the study of components and harmful heavy metals are required. The Korean pharmacopoeia contains 52 animal-based medicines, among which insect-originated medicines are listed at the highest rate. This study was carried out to detect the 30 inorganic elements, including four heavy metal in insect-originated medicines in Korea using an inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) and a mercury analyzer. Potassium, phosphorus, calcium, and sulfur are large amounts of inorganic elements that consist of the organism, and these components were detected in the highest contents in these samples. In addition, the contents of four heavy metals including lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury were analyzed. The contents of lead and cadmium in Cicadidae Periostracum were found as 7.5 and 0.348 mg/kg, respectively.