Snakebite, remedies

Taraxacum officinale G. H. Weber ex Wigg. Western Pu Gong Ying (Dandelion) (root) Inulin, essential oils, choline, hydroxycinnamic acids, carotenes, ether oils, monoterpene, oxalic acids, hydrocyanic acids, sesquiterpene glucosides, flavonoids, hydroxybenzoic acid, coumarins, anthocyanidines, anthraquinones, phytosterines, squalene, cerylic alcohol, arabinose, vitamins , , C.88-222-450 Sudorific, stomachic, tonic, a remedy for sores, boils, ulcers, abscesses, snakebites. 

Gnidia kraussiana Meisn. var. kraussiana [umsilawengwe, yellow heads] (Thymelaeaceae) root decoction is for stomachache. Roots eontain anthranoids, flavonoids, polyphenols, saponins and tannins (15). The root is also used for remedies for bums and snakebites (28). 

The leaves of the Amazonian tree Siparuma guianensis contain cruzerene, which (in an example of an ethnoveterinary remedy ) is reported to be used by certain hunters indigenous to its environs to treat snakebites and scorpion stings received by their hunting dogs. 

T raditional Medicine. This plant (E. angustifolia) was universally used as an antidote for snakebite and other venomous bites and stings and poisonous conditions. Echinacea seems to have been used as a remedy for more ailments than any other plant. Diseases and conditions for which echinacea was employed by physicians (1887-1939) included old sores, wounds, snakebite, gangrene, and as a local antiseptic internally for diphtheria, typhoid conditions, cholera infantum, syphilis, and blood poisoning. ... 

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