Today antisera for the venoms of most dangerous scorpions are available and often save lives if they are administered soon enough and in the right quantity.
There are also some useless folk remedies.
In parts of the Sudan, the site of a scorpion sting is smeared with sesame oil in which scorpions have died and disintegrated.
In other parts of the Sudan, the site of a sting is rubbed with the charred toenail of a baboon.
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