Entomotherapy: a study of medicinal insects of three ethnic groups in Semkhor Area, Dima Hasao District, Assam

Abstract

The ethnic communities in Semkhor 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 Semkhor.