| Dogbane is used in folk medicine as a diuretic, insecticide, and cardiac tonic, and for the treatment of haemorrhoids, epilepsy, eczema, and snakebite. |
| Diapedesis is now supposed to be the result of blood pressure, but it occurs in snakebite, where blood pressure is at zero. |
| Its most important characteristic is the power to extract the poisoned blood out of the snakebite wound. |
| Equine-derived antivenin to snake venom has been the mainstay of hospital treatment for venomous snakebite for 35 years. |
| As a medicinal herb, lilies were said to treat burns, snakebite and even leprosy. |
| The reaction to coral snakebite is usually delayed-sometimes up to several hours. |
