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Turpentine or Kerosene for Snake Bite

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Rob (Kentucky) on 07/13/2023:
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Got a good story today... My friend Angie called me around 5pm and said she found her cat "toastie" laying by the back door unresponsive with her mouth open and tongue hanging out. She saw dried blood coming out of puncher marks on her skin. My best guess was the cat got bit by a poisonous snake. I asked her if she had any turpentine? She said no... I asked if she had any kerosene? She said no... I asked if she had and old oil lamp? She said yes. I asked if she had the liquid that goes into the lamp? She said yes. I said, Angie the lamp oil is kerosene... duh! So I instructed her to take a wash cloth and soak it in kerosene and apply it to the puncher marks on the cat. 10 minutes on then 20 minutes off. Repeat this til either the cat starts looking and feeling better or the cat is dead. Also, she had some activated charcoal I had sent her awhile back. Take 1/4 teaspoon in 1/2 a glass of water and mix them together. Then administer this mixture with an eye dropper drop by drop into the cats mouth. 1 full dropper ever hour. By 10pm the cat was up and purring, eating food, drinking alot of water, and crawled into her lap on her own strength. Toastie was almost toast! LOL! The cat survived. The grandkids are happy!

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Shanel (Lutz, FL) on 07/09/2023:
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I was 10 years old and was bitten by a moccasin in my front yard. My mother took a small bottle of turpentine oil and held it upside down over each fang mark for 60 seconds each and kept rotating it until paramedics got there. Sitting on the kitchen floor, doing as she instructed, I watched a thin cloudy line being drawn back up into the bottle from the opening of the bottle where it covered the fang mark. The paramedics told my mother she was crazy. Both my mom and dad grew up in the outdoors hunting and fishing and they had hunting dogs and had used it on snake bitten dogs with success. I would say I am their first human success. Today, I am a pharmacist and have a much better understanding of herbal and homeopathic remedies.

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Rob (Kentucky) on 08/04/2022:
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Turpentine/Kerosene -

Pour pine resin turpentine or kerosene over a SNAKE BITE to draw out the poison. A lot of hunters in Eastern Kentucky have reported their hunting dogs bitten by rattlesnakes or copperheads to the head and survived by the use of turpentine or kerosene use to clean the wound and draw out the venom applied every hour.

Turpentine is also used for quick and effective relief from painful wasp and bee stings. Country folklore.

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