Sarpagandha also was known as snakeroot is known to acts effectively against poisonous bites. It has extensively used in ayurveda to treat various diseases. In the dense jungles and farms venomous reptiles like the snake scorpio mongoose are usually encountered and when they attack its not easy to find some medicine to cure their toxic venomwild snake root devil pepper be still tree american serpentwood devil root milkbush hindi: barachandrika chandrabhagatamil: pampukaalaachchedi malayalam: pampumkolli kattamalpori telugu: papataku kannada: dodda chandrike bengali: bar chandrika gandhanakuli oriya: patalagarudi sanskrit: vanasarpagandha sarpanasini .