The cicada molts are supposedly good for scrofula and ulcer. Perhaps due to my childhood experience I still viewed them with awe and did not take that particular prescription. It is supposed to help stop bleeding and heal bone fractures, swelling etc. He tore the whole mud-made stove down, making the kitchen a huge mess. The roaches apparently liked to dwell in cracks in the stove.
Arthritis is the most popular disease to be treated by bee stings.
Use of pollen as health food is rather recent, perhaps after the Europeans. Queen larvae, mostly by-products of royal jelly production, are also used for making alcoholic tonic. Ants are used as health food and a medicine, though as usual it is not known what are the active ingredients. There are also wines and tonic made with ants. Insects are often subjects of art in ancient China.