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

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...