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For hundreds of years, the Army Ant has been used as a natural way of suturing wounds
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They're made of chitin/chitosan. Very few things eat that and none of those are in your body. Same reason insect stingers can often remain years in, say, your hand. At worst you get a small pustule that's more related to Irritation of the local tissue but you'd potentially get that with a regular stitch too.
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In many, many, many, many instances it's both better and far less painful. Pretty fast too and un-fucking-ironically one of the most hygienic methods around.
Same with leeching. It's not a panacea like assumed a couple hundred years ago, but a nice rotation of the fellas for a couple days can cut weeks of recovery.