The document discusses medicinal plants used by hunters in Trinidad to treat snakebites in humans and their dogs. A vine called monkey ladder is used to make a poultice or tincture to prevent flesh from rotting around the bite area. Typical snakebite tinctures contain plants like mat root, cat's claw, tobacco, snake bush, and wild gri gri root. The leaf juice of Eclipta prostrata is used for scorpion stings. Chewing the root of bois canôt or a mixture of mardi gras berries and wild cane juice can also be given to dogs bitten by snakes. These snakebite remedies are said to be effective against bites from