
Oils may be animal, vegetable, or petrochemical in origin, and may be volatile or non-volatile. Fixed or volatile oil extracted from plants contain various phytochemicals that are used for treatment of various diseases. Physiologically fixed oils are emollients and demulcents and have nutritional value. Sometimes oils obtained from different plant species are also used for treating snake bite victims by the tribal people. In the present paper seed oils properties, their general extraction methods with reference to snake bite envenomation treatment is discussed.