Indigenous Snake Bite Remedies of the Luo of Western Kenya

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12380
AutoresBethwell O Owuor (Catholic University of Eastern Africa, P.O. Box 62157, Nairobi, Kenya; (BOO)), Bethwell Owuor (autor de correspondencia), Benson A Mulemi (0000-0002-5677-4625, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, P.O. Box 62157, Nairobi, Kenya; (BOO)), Muzaffar Assadi, John O Kokwaro (University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 30197, Nairobi, Kenya)
Año2005
Volumen25
Número1
Páginas129-141
Fecha de publicación2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Ethnobiology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0278-0771 • E-ISSN: 2162-4496
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2993/0278-0771_2005_25_129_isbrot_2.0.co_2
OpenAlexW2177622991
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas25

Medicinal plants have been overtaken in the treatment of snake bites by serum therapy and are rarely considered efficacious remedies in biomedicine. Nevertheless, rural inhabitants rely on plant medical material and the attention of highly regarded local traditional healers when threatened by snakebite poisoning. This paper examines curative and preventive snakebite treatments, beliefs and practices collected from 100 Luo respondents. The informants reported the use of a number of herbal and non-herbal remedies including mystical therapies and 24 herbaceous plants whose aerial parts are preferred. Treatments involve cut, suck, and bind methods followed by application of plant leaf and root poultices held in place with strips of cloth or bark

Biology · Envenomation · Geography · Indigenous · Medicinal plants · Snake bites · Threatened species · Traditional medicine · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies · Medicine · Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins · Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies · Ecology · Forestry