Descriptive Study on Treatment of Poisonous Bites Followed by Traditional Medical Practitioners in Vilavancode Taluk, Kanyakumari District

Siddha system of medicine is an unique system of medicine which has been flourished with a wide range of treatment methods and provides definite cure to a vast number of diseases. Traditional medicine has been an integral source of health in communities for centuries. They also provide treatment to wide range of toxins ranging from plant biotoxins to animal biotoxins such as the bites of rats, dogs, spider, scorpion, monkeys, snakes, cats, centipede etc. In this aspect Poisonous bites are treated by many traditional practitioners in Vilavancode Taluk from which I had chosen four of them for this descriptive study. They were using both internal and external medicines. This study helps to bring out the treatment procedure used for the Poisonous bites by traditional medical practitioners.