The tribes of Southern Chhattisgarh (Bastar and Dantewara District) are known for their unique and distinctive tribal culture, folk treatment and heritage in all over the world. The paper highlights the folk Practitioners, their status, education, training, nature of visit, methods of treatment ...
One reason for this development could have been the realisation that the descriptions of medicinal uses of insects in the older reports, were often attributed to the Doctrine of Signatures (i.e., in the sense of “let likes be cured by likes”) and were therefore dismissed as superstition or...
since there are many hundreds if not thousands of arthropods that would qualify to be considered for the list (over 500 insects and mite species according to Oudhia [79] are used as traditional medicine in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh alone), it would be an unwieldy and terribly long lis...