A REVIEW ON SCORPION VENOM: AN UNREVEALED MEDICINE FOR HUMAN AILMENTS: GREAT SCOPE FOR PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH
Srither R.*, Jothimanivannan C., Sampath T., Dhanasekaran A., Arun S., Gokulnath M., Hemavathi D.
ABSTRACT
Scorpion venom components have multifaceted orientation against bacterial, viral, fungal infections and other neuronal disorders. In ancient era, venoms are considered as toxic substance. But, in this era, it is used as a valuable medicine to cure certain types of diseases and disorders such as antibacterial, anti-rheumatic etc. venomous animals found worldwide except cold geographical regions. Animal venoms are complex mixtures of highly specialized toxic short peptides enzymatic in nature which exert severe pathophysiological effects. We are killing scorpions, because sting was poison but this poison also used as a medicine. An optimum concentration of scorpion venom should not produce side effects while it crosses their limit it will be poisonous. By this the study concludes that, even if the Scorpions are dangerous their venom are useful to us and instead of killing them, they can be nourished and breeded for economic purposes. And by nature we have the raw material (scorpion) abundantly in our environment; instead of killing them we should utilize them properly.
Keywords: Scorpion venom, Antiviral, Anti-rheumatic, Antifungal, Poison.
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