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Curcuma zedoaroides A. Chaveerach & T. Tanee is locally named in Thai as Wan-Paya-Ngoo-Tua-Mia. It was firstly described by Chaveerach et al., 2008. This plant is cultivated in the king cobra village of Khon Kaen Province, Northeastern Thailand, where is it commonly used for snake-bite antidote. Lattmann et al. (2010) and Salama et al. (2012) have been published the Antivenom activity of some phytochemical compounds isolated from plant rhizomes extract against Ophiophagus hannah.
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