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...
Main Authors: | Lobeno Mozhui, L. N. Kakati, Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-03-01
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Series: | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-021-00444-1 |
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