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Laynie Browne
Scorpyn Ode
Protection by way of:
A damp cloth sprinkled lightly with kerosene
placed across the base of the door, inside
Pile rue, rosemary, southernwood, wormwood
Bulbs of garlic round cradles
Wooden legs inserted into shallow glass
The only surface scorpions cannot climb
Black pepper on the hair
where it grows from the forehead
Himalayan woodblock print of scorpion on rice paper
Camel urine applied to face, hands and feet
Brew of potato or turnip skins
Lemon-grass, citronella, lavender
Broom as a weapon of the country woman
Sun-dried thyme, flowering grasses
Stalks intricately plaited
Butcher’s bush bound to olive
To become immune: catch a centipede
Discard its head
Pulverize body
Place on fresh wound
Scorpyn Ode
Invoke Scorpionic Predators:
Elf Owls
Lizards
Quolls
Dunnarts
Numbats
Tasmanian Devils
Thylacine
Bandicoots
Marsupial moles
Grasshopper mice
Desert shrews
Small fossorial snakes
Roadrunners
Pallid bats
Centipedes, dragons with 22 pairs of legs
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Remedies:
Small incision with knife, sucking and spitting
Rue saved the life of Mahomet
Wrap wound in hot vinegar soaked cloths
Rockrose, elder blossom, gorse flowers against shock
Common red rose
Garlic mixed in pounded rue, bound with course honey
A darkened room, ragged robin, scorpion herb
Of borage family scorpion grass, mouse-ear
Yarrow, hound’s-tongue, plantain, crushed roots of sea-holly
Poultice of freshly chewed cottonwood leaves
Aspen leaves, prickly pear cactus
Creosote leaves, mashed and mixed with mud
Western mugwort, juice of mango leaf, tulsi or holy basil
Dry ginger paste with curd
Rub fenugreek powder over wound
Ashes of the bark of Arjuna tree
Salt fish and drink undiluted wine
Fast upon juices
Decoction of sea-dragon and sea-scorpion
Calendula ointment
Fomentation of sarsaparilla
Hemolymph (or bluish blood) and flesh of scorpyn
A talisman burnt in water
Anti-venom milking
Red-cedar oil
Melted quartz rock
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On the Uses of Venom:
Scorpion venom with nanoparticles
Sows spread of brain cancer
Selket or Serget eases childbirth
Venom employed in tumor painting
Assures greater surgical accuracy
Scorpion venom blocks bone loss
In early life Milarepa invoked a giant black scorpion
to seek revenge upon relatives
Diluted venom of Cuba’s blue scorpion,
Escozul has analgesic, immuno-regulating, antioxidant,
Anti-inflammatory properties in the treatment
of malign tumors and in the terminal stage of
AIDS and prostate cancer
“Finger-scorpion gesture” invoked an apparition
which terrified King Langdarma who avowed:
“I will not in any way harm the white-robed followers”
Venom treatment implicated in
Gliomas, lupus, multiple sclerosis
Rheumatoid arthritis, secretory diseases
Homeopathic Androctonos given for lack of empathy