enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Insects in medicine - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insects_in_medicine

   It is a typical component of modern medical care throughout East Asia and in some parts of Southeast Asia (such as Thailand). Insects are very commonly incorporated as part of the herbal medicine component of traditional Chinese medicine, and their medical properties and applications are broadly accepted and agreed upon. Some brief examples follow:

3. Medical entomology - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_entomology

   The discipline of medical entomology, or public health entomology, and also veterinary entomology is focused upon insects and arthropods that impact human health. Veterinary entomology is included in this category, because many animal diseases can "jump species" and become a human health threat, for example, bovine encephalitis.

4. Human interactions with insects - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/.../Human_interactions_with_insects

   Frederick Simon Bodenheimer's Insects as Human Food (1951) drew attention to the scope and potential of entomophagy, and showed a positive aspect of insects. Food is the most studied topic in ethnoentomology, followed by medicine and beekeeping. [1] Fighting insects: an agricultural aircraft applies low-insecticide bait to kill western corn ...

5. Animal products in pharmaceuticals - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_products_in...

   Homeopathic medicine is made of plants, minerals, or animal parts. [22] Oscillococcinum, a remedy purported to reduce cold and flu like symptoms, is made of duck heart and liver. [23] There is also use of insects in homeopathic medicine, such as Blatta orientalis, a type of cockroach which has been studied by homeopaths for anti-asthmatic ...

6. Arachnids in medicine - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnids_in_medicine

   Modern medical research has only recently begun investigating the drug development potential of blood-feeding insect saliva. These compounds in the saliva of blood-feeding insects can increase the ease of blood feeding by preventing the coagulation of platelets around the wound and providing protection against the host's immune response.

7. List of parasites of humans - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parasites_of_humans

   insect River blindness, onchocerciasis: Onchocerca volvulus: skin, eye, tissue bloodless skin snip Africa, Yemen, Central and South America near cool, fast flowing rivers Simulium/black fly, bites during the day Strongyloidiasis – Parasitic pneumonia: Strongyloides stercoralis: intestines, lungs, skin (Larva currens) stool, blood skin penetration

8. Food poisoning is extremely common. But that doesn't ... - AOL

   www.aol.com/food-poisoning-extremely-common...

   Some of the most common bugs that contaminate food include E. coli, salmonella, campylobacter, staphylococcus, listeria and norovirus. Though most any food can become contaminated with bacteria or ...

9. Entomophagy in humans - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy_in_humans

   Entomophagy in humans or human entomophagy describes the consumption of insects (entomophagy) by humans in a cultural and biological context. The scientific term used in anthropology, cultural studies, biology and medicine is anthropo-entomophagy.