“…Further, considering the limitations of antiserum therapy (Dhananjaya et al, 2011, Girish and Kemparaju, 2011), researches are focusing on the development of alternative treatments and in this regard finding inhibitors of the multi-toxic svPLA 2 s from medicinal plants have gained much interest (Carvalho et al, 2013, Gomes et al, 2012). In this context, although many sPLA 2 inhibitors have been isolated from various medicinal plants (Springer, 2001, Nanda et al, 2007, Narendra Sharath Chandra et al, 2007) that have been demonstrated to bring down the toxic and lethal effects of several venoms (Girish and Kemparaju, 2011), however, still effective and specific inhibitors of sPLA 2 are not available.…”