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