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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2025

A comprehensive review on recent advances in the use of ethnomedicinal plants and their metabolites in snake bite treatment.

Ashish Kumar, Rameshwari A Banjara, Roman Kumar Aneshwari, Junaid Khan, Paulo Sergio Bernarde

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Ashish KumarDepartment of Biotechnology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Rameshwari A BanjaraDepartment of Chemistry, Rajeev Gandhi Government Postgraduate College, Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Roman Kumar AneshwariSchool of Pharmacy, MATS University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Junaid KhanDepartment of Pharmacy, Sant Gahira Guru Vishwavidyalaya, Sarguja Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Paulo Sergio BernardeLaboratório de Herpetologia, Centro Multidisciplinar, Campus Floresta, Universidade Federal do Acre, Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Snakebites are a severe medical and social issue, particularly in tropical and subtropical countries with minimal medical facilities, where the most dangerous snakes are found. Worldwide, most rural areas use medicinal plants alone or in combination as antidotes for snakebite treatment. Local knowledge of medicinal plants for snakebite treatment plays a more critical role in primary healthcare services in rural areas. As a result of this review, it is revealed that 39% of herbs, 38% of shrubs, 18% of trees, 2% of climbers, 2% of bulbs, and 1% of ferns have snake antivenom potential, which is indicative of the presence of numerous phytochemicals such as alkaloids, coumarins, curcuminoids, flavonoids, steroids, triterpenoids, and cinnamic acid in particular plants. According to the availability of information, the data focus on the plants, their families, and their parts from various literature sources. In the future, the valuable plants reported here and their phytoconstituents may be potential sources for developing effective natural drugs for snake bite treatments. Therefore, this review is a comprehensive study of the snake antivenom potential of various medicinal plants and their bioactive compounds.

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ethnomedicinemedicinal plantsphytoconstituentssnakebitesnake venom

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PMCPMC11973492

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