Herbs and herbal constituents active against snake bite.
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...avellanedae is used in the treatment of snake bites [10, 16]....
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...A. bidentata was also widely used in clinic for childbirth and induced abortion in 1970s in China (Guo et al., 1997)....
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...Another in vivo investigation has shown that A. bidentata saponins exhibited obvious excitatory effects on different animals’ uteri under different physiological conditions (Guo et al., 1997)....
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...According to literature, interestingly, there are some plants in which the crude extract is more active than the isolated constituents [15], which supports the hypothesis of the synergistic action of plant components....
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...The use of medicinal plants may present several advantages, such as low cost, being easily available, being stable at room temperature, and possibility of neutralization of a wide range of venomcomponents [15]....
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...Snakes from Crotalus durissus complex, popularly known as rattlesnakes, are dispersed northward into North America and southward into South America....
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...In addition, sincemedicinal plants are an extremely complex mixture, it is possible that there may be a synergistic action of different compounds in plant, acting in distinct targets, inhibiting a broad spectrum of venom toxins [12, 15]....
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...There are several reports of the popular use of medicinal plants against snakebites around the world, especially in tropical and subtropical regions such as Asia, Africa, and South America [14, 15]....
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...Along with the utilization in traditional medicine by local practitioners and healers, this plant also reportedly showed diverse pharmacological properties including antimicrobial[3,4], lavicidal, anti cancer, antipyretic, cardiovascular agent, immunostimulant, hypoglycaemic, antioxidant, anti asthmatic, anti obesity, anti snake venom, anti plant pathogen, anti-depressant, anti-dandruff, anthelmintic, and wound healing[1,5-12]....
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