"[Plin. Nat. 25.63.] - THE SPARGANION: ONE REMEDY.
The root, too, of the plant known as the sparganion, is taken in white wine, as a remedy for the stings of serpents.”
(The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855.)