Therapy with medicine beetles is carried out in a very unappetizing way: they are offered to eat them alive, washed down with kefir or eaten with bread crumbs. Moreover, the “therapeutic dose” is not limited to one insect - starting with one individual, the amount eaten must be increased to several dozen pieces at a time. Only in this case is a healing effect promised.
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Briefly about the role of insects in nature
These inhabitants of our planet belong to the class of arthropods. At this time, scientists have described more than 1.5 million of their species (according to other sources, over 2 million). This means that for every inhabitant of our planet there are 250 million individuals. The taxonomy of insects is quite complex. To put it simply, we can say that classes based on morphological characteristics are divided into orders, each of which contains tens and hundreds of species. Almost every order contains beneficial and harmful insects. Moreover, the same species can cause both harm and benefit. Let's look at this in more detail.
What are medicine beetles?
Under the name of the healer beetle (also known as the healer beetle) hides the darkling beetle from the family Tenebrionidae. This is a small coleopteran insect pest that feeds on grain crops. The misfortune of this species of darkling beetle, Ulomoides dermestoides, is the fact that at one time they were included in the list of traditional medicines of Japan and China. People believed that eating Coleoptera pests would relieve lower back pain, cough, asthma and other problems.
At the end of the 20th century, the beetle gained popularity Argentine Rx: Take 70 Beetles And Call Me in the Morning in Argentina and Brazil. Darkling beetles were raised on home farms and sold in bulk, in quantities of 1,000 or more. Sellers claimed that eating live bugs could alleviate or cure ailments such as psoriasis, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, arthritis, AIDS and cancer.
It was then that darkling beetles acquired their common English name - Chinese beetles (Chinese beatles), or Chinese weevils. And then the spread of medicinal beetle eating around the world began.
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