title: Traditional use of plants against snakebite in Indian subcontinent: a review of the recent literature.
abstract: Snakebite has been a major cause of mortality across the tropical countries including Indian subcontinent. The present review deals with the enormous amount of ethnobotanical work performed in the last few years involving use of different plants against snakebite in Indian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal). From a variety of literature sources the data has been compiled mentioning the plants, parts used, dosage, mode of administration, name of the ethnic communities, geographical locations etc. depending on the availability of information.
authors: Presidency College, 86/1, College Street, Kolkata-700073, West Bengal, India. abhijitbio25@yahoo.com
authors: Abhijit
authors: A
authors: Dey
authors: Jitendra Nath
authors: JN
authors: De
mesh_terms: D001459:Bangladesh; D019448:Ethnobotany; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D019684:Magnoliopsida; D009390:Nepal; D010154:Pakistan; D008517:Phytotherapy; D028321:Plant Preparations / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012909:Snake Bites / Q000188:drug therapy*; D064028:Tracheophyta
chemical_list: D028321:Plant Preparations
keywords: Ethnobotany; review; snakebite; subcontinent
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