The ancients used many methods of medicine, including poisons extracted from nature or animals, both as vaccines for prevention and as a treatment to relieve pain and cure disease, and this was called traditional medicine in our times.
The ancient Egyptians, Chinese and Indians used extracts from over 36 species of animals, from Snakes Spiders, scorpions, cone snails and other poisonous reptiles, animals and plants, although some of them have not been scientifically proven and their beliefs have caused the extinction of some animals.
There is an allegation that some of these animals have caused the spread of certain diseases and epidemics, such as the one that happened with the pangolin eater, which has been accused of being the source of the Corona virus, although the matter is now very different. , as it happened it becomes possible to benefit from the therapeutic properties of the components extracted from wild animals in a safe way through scientific techniques is possible and effective.
A drug from the venom of cone snails and lizards
After long and painstaking experiments, scientists were able to develop drugs extracted from the saliva of the poisonous Gila lizard, in particular inexatide, which helped a lot in the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
Ziconitide has also been extracted from the venom of the cone snail, and this has also helped treat many chronic pains.
Medicines extracted from snake venom
And when we look at any medical pharmacy, we can see an image of a snake wrapped around a bowl and spewing its venom, which is not surprising, since snake venoms and snakes have a lot in the treatment of diseases, so the drug eptifipatide was manufactured similar to the venom of the “rattlesnake” which inhabits the southeastern United States, and helps a lot in the treatment of heart attacks.
The drug Batroxobin, extracted from the viper, endemic to South America, treats many bleeding disorders.
Extracting a treatment from the venoms of the scorpion
Managed poison hands Death Stoker is able to assist in the healing of many cancerous diseases, but this time not as a treatment or serum, but rather as an aid in detecting small cancerous tumors, which are difficult to see in MRIs.
While the substance used in the treatment of stroke, “HA1a”, was extracted from the venom of repressive spiders, the Australian network, which includes 3000 molecules, after long researches proved that the patient taking this treatment 4 hours after a stroke, it can prevent 90% of the damage caused by the stroke, and this poison hardly causes any side effects for the injured person.
