Entomotherapy: a study of medicinal insects of seven ethnic groups in Nagaland, North-East India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The ethnic communities in Nagaland have kept a close relationship with nature since time immemorial and have traditionally used different kinds of insects and their products as folk medicine to treat a variety of human ills and diseases. The present study was conducted to record the entomotherapeutic practices of seven different ethnic groups of Nagaland.

Method

Documentation is based on semi-structured questionnaires and group discussions with a total of 370 informants. The data collected were analysed using fidelity level (FL) and informant consensus factor (ICF).

Results

Fifty species of medicinal insects belonging to 28 families and 11 orders were identified in connection with treatments of at least 50 human ailments, of which the most frequently cited

SUBMITTER: Mozhui L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7986042 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature