A survey of plant crude drugs, being used for snake and other various bites by the Konda Reddis, one of the primitive tribal groups in Andhra Pradesh, yielded 30 medicinally important species belonging to 26 genera and 21 families. The ethnomedicinal information regarding local name, part used, purpose of usage and mode of administration were recorded.
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