Anthelmintics
Anthelmintics are gents destructive to parasitic worms. They are used therapeutically in the treatment of helmintiasis in both humans and animals.
List of antihelminthic drugs[edit | edit source]
- Antimony potassium tartrate - a poisonous colorless salt used as a mordant and in medicine
- Male fern - fern of North America and Europe whose rhizomes and stalks yield an oleoresin used to expel tapeworms
- Mebendazole - an anthelmintic used to treat hookworm and pinworm and roundworm infestations
- Piperazine - vermifuge used to treat infestations by roundworms or pinworms
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