Table 6 Major disease categories and insect and other invertebrate taxa containing species used in treating diseases of the various categories
Heart & blood | Skin & wounds & burns | Lungs & bronchi & asthma | Kidney & urogenital | Ulcers & tumors | Haemorrhoids | Muscle & rheumatism | Fever & colds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Odonata & plus aquatic orders | X | X | X | X | X | |||
Orthoptera | X | X | X | X | X | |||
Isoptera | X | X | X | X | X | |||
Hemiptera | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
Coleoptera | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
Lepidoptera | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
Hymenoptera | X | apitherapy | apitherapy | apitherapy | apitherapy | X | X | |
Diptera | X | X | X | |||||
Other orders | X | X | X | X | ||||
Chilopoda | X | X | X | X | ||||
Scorpiondae | X | X | X | |||||
Oligochaeta | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Gastropoda | X | X | X | X | X | X |