Traditional knowledge of invertebrates used for medicine and magical–religious purposes by traditional healers and indigenous populations in the Plateau Department, Republic of Benin

Table 4 Categories of diseases treated with invertebrate-based remedies in Plateau Department according to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) used by the World Health Organization (WHO) (N = 133)

Categories	Diseases and illnesses	Total
Diseases of digestive system	Diarrhoea, ulcer	2
Disease of respiratory system	Asthma, sore throat pain	2
Diseases of nervous system	Epilepsy, paralysis	2
Diseases of the ear or mastoid process	Earache	1
Diseases of the visual system	Myopia	1
Diseases of the skin	Abscess, burn, wound healing, varicella	4
Diseases of the circulatory system	Haemorrhage, haemorrhoids, hypertension, hypotension	4
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system	Arthritis, backache, body aches	3
Diseases of the blood or blood-forming organs	Sickle cell disease	1
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases	Malaria, mumps, leprosy, athlete’s foot, tuberculosis	5
Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases	Diabetes	1
Mental, behavioural or neurodevelopmental disorders	Memory loss, madness	2
Pregnancy, childbirth or the puerperium	Difficult childbirth, fertility	2
Injury, poisoning or certain other consequences of external causes	Snake bite, scorpion sting	2
Conditions related to sexual health	Sexual weakness, fibroma, vaginal infections	3
Undefined illnesses	Alcoholism, tooth decay, tiredness, dizziness, fever, allergy, liver dysfunction, hernia, pains, headache, splenomegaly, stomachaches, swollen feet, enuresis, menstrual cramps	15

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