DOI: 10.36347/sajp.2021.v10i08.002

Pages: 139-144

Snake bite is the important health problem in rural and tribal areas. Every year snake bites leading to 25,000 to 125,000 deaths around the globe. In most of the cases people depends on traditional medicine to treat snake envenoming. Present-day folk medicine became as a tool to design of potent inhibitors to neutralize snake venom, including the local tissue damage. The present study deals with 23 plant species occurred in Ananthagiri area used for snake bites. These plant species are listed alphabetically with their botanical names, vernacular names, families and ethnomedicinal uses.