Can snake venom cure diseases?
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Of course! Venom can be used to make vaccine! This can be useful for those people have high risk of contacting snake bite.\n\nAlso, blood pressure lowering drug, Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) inhibitor was developed based on the observation of blood pressure dropping effect after being bitten by snake.As a result, an analogue molecule was developed rationally
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Snake oil doesnt come from snakes. It is actually made from pine trees. Pine tree oil works wonders. Also try tea tree oil.  a company called meleulauca or something sells that product, but try a vitamin or health food store.
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...I'm sure it could, but could a PIG kill a snake?  ;)\nA friend told me a story of how he had a pot-belly pig for a pet.  It would roam around the farm and sometimes show up back at the house with snakes.  My friend said he finally figured it out when he actually saw the pig kill a rattlesnake.  The pig had hunted the snake.  The snake tried to retaliate, but its bites could not effect the pig because of the thick layer of fat on its neck, so the pig always won! \nWish I had a pig to keep the snakes away! :)
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A venomous snake have venoms delivered through fangs in its mouth to immobilize or kill its prey.Venomous snakes that use heomotoxins usually have their fangs to secrete the venom in the front of their mouths, making it easier for them to inject the venom into their victims. \n\nNot all snakes that produce venom have injecting fangs. Vipers and cobras are the two primary families of injecting venomous snakes. These snake have a venom gland that feeds directly into their completely hollow fang, which has a tiny hole near the tip. This gland is called the Duvernoy's gland. Venom is forced out of the hole near the tip of the fang, into the flesh of the snake's prey when it bites.\n\nSnake venom is saliva, a highly modified saliva, and is produced by modified saliva glands. The proteinaceous nature of snake venom was established by Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, Lucien in 1843. Venoms are rich in hydrolithic enzymes, a complex mix of polypeptides, nucleases, peptidases, etc., which help digest the snake's prey.♥
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well, if you take penicillin than the chances are very high.  Strep throat will pretty much always be cured unless you have a weakened immune system.
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Many antidotes are actually antibody solutions- If you have a toxin in your body, and you are given on antibody (made in a culture dish, or by a different animal) then the antibody will bind to the toxin (or bacterial protein, etc) and decrease it's toxicity.  I won't go into the biochemistry of it.
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you mean the milking of snakes? or milk like a bucket of cows milk?\n\nMilking doesnt hurt snakes in any way.\n\nI dont believe a snake would ingest milk on its own, although they may eat lactating creatures, IE mice or something.  Although they could drown in a large pool of milk just as much as if it were water.
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Because many medicines used to be made with snake venom in the very old days. That's why you see the snake wrapped around a "collecting cup", and can sometimes see a little drop of venom dripping from the snake's mouth.
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A cobra is much more poisonous than a rattlesnake. If a rattlesnake bites you, you have a pretty good chance of living through it without any medical attention, although it is advisable to get medical attention.\nIf you are bitten by a cobra, medical attention and antivenom are necessary immediately.\nA bit of advice. First aid used to recommend the application of a tournquet between the bitten extremety  and the heart plus making an X incision 1/4 inch long and deep on the fang punctures. This is not a good idea as the incisions can cause more damage than the snake bite. The suction cups in a snakebite kit are good for sucking out the poison. If you try sucking it out by mouth, if you have a sore or some wound in the mouth, you can get poisoned, too.\n Application of an elastic bandage over the bite helps to prevent the poison from spreading through the body. Keeping calm is also a good idea as if the bitten person gets excited, the pulse rate goes up spreading the poison at a much more rapid pace.\nAbout 20 or so years ago, it was thought that electric shock, such as from a taser, would destroy the toxicity of the poison. I haven't heard anything about that for many years, so I don't think it worked very well.\nBe cautious around areas where there are known to be snakes, know what their habitat is and when they are likely to be about. \nIn the spring and late summer here in the northern U.S., the snakes shed their skin. At that time, they are the most dangerous because they can't see well.
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Most snakes are non-poisonous, and so a snake bite is a fairly minor injury.  Clean the wound and dress it (bandage).\n\nIf the snake was a venomous snake, then swift medical attention and anti-venin may be required.  A reliable identification of the snake is vital to proper delivery of the right anti-venin, so the snake should also be brought to the facility if possible.\n\nDO NOT suck out the wound!!  You increase the chances of infection, expose the person sucking to potential harm from the venom, and may make the injury worse.\n\nA loose tourniquet (you should still be able to slide a finger between the limb and the tourniquet) will help restrict the flow of venom into the rest of the body.  Remove the tourniquet for a few minutes every half hour to keep some blood flowing to the limb.\n\nKeep the bitten limb lower than the victim's heart.\n\nSeek medical attention immediately.  If it's a venomous snake.  But most snake bites (in North America anyhow) are probably not going to be as dangerous.
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They can move faster than snakes. When a venomous snake is trying to bite the mongoose, the mongoose is fast enough to avoid the bite many times. When the snake gets too tired, the mongoose eats the snake.\n\nContrary to popular belief, the mongoose is NOT immune to snake venom.
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Hi,\n\nI don't think there is a cure for this disease but there are several drugs available and coming through the system that may help ease the problems or slow them down.  \n\nTry these links:\n\nhttp://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/health-info/docs/2100/2112.asp?index=8877\nhttp://armor.typepad.com/bastardsword/2004/08/potential_cure_.html\nhttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=35418
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Scorpions are arachnids and so are related to spiders. Their venom acts in much the same way that spider venom does. It generally has neutroxic (attacks the nervous system), hemolytic (destroys red blood cells), coagulant (causes blood clots) and cardiotoxic (attacks the heart) properties.\n\nSnakes on the other hand do not have venom, they use poison to attack their victims. Generally, snakes can cause nerve and tissue damage, as well as disfigurement. Smaller snakes can cause infection and serious allergic reactions.\n\nSymptoms of snake bites:\n\nImmediate response: Severe fright and mental agitation leading to tachycardia, sweating, hypotension and even vascular collapse are prominent features soon after the snake bite. These nonspecific symptoms may be seen in all snakes bites. \n\nLocal reactions: Local reactions are more prominent in the case of viper bites and less so in others. Intense pain, swelling and violaceous discoloration develop within minutes and often serosanguinous fluid exudes from the fang marks. \n\nGeneral Effects: These vary with the types of snake. Cobra and krait venom are predominantly neurotoxic, while those of vipers are histotoxic (poisonous to body tissues). \n\nCobra and Krait bites: Soon after the byte, the patient complains of a sinking feeling, drowsiness, blurring of vision, diplopia. Dysphagia and dyspnea.\n\nViper Bites: with in 3 to 4 hours of the bite, the hemorrhagic manifestation appear in the nature of extensive bruising, bleeding from the bitten part and injection sites, bleeding from the gums.\n\nSea snake bites: sea snake bites are identified by the victims as sharp pricks. The local reaction may be insignificant. Signs occur with in one hour and initial symptoms consist of pain and stiffness of the muscles of neck, back and proximal parts of the limbs but rapidly becoming generalized.
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Venomous and Poisonous Spiders and Snakes.
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finding a cure for the common cold
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There probably aren't any plant extracts that would\nbe antidotes to cobra venom.  What is needed is\na specific anticobra antivenin.  Such antivenins do\nexist and hospitals in Sabah may well have them\navailable.  \n\nCobras are so dangerous that anyone working\nwith them needs to take extreme care, and to get\nadvice and assistance from someone who knows\nhow to deal with them.  The venom is so toxic\nthat an animal as small as a mouse would be\nkilled by a very small amount.  This is especially\ntrue of the king cobra which feeds almost entirely\non other snakes which require a more potent\nvenom to kill them than mammals do.  The best\nthing to do with cobras is avoid them unless you\nare an expert.
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Yep just like on Dr. House. But did you know that I also have venom?