Quoting%20commentary for Shabbat 218:11

האי מאן דבלע חיויא לוכליה כשותא במילחא ולירהטיה תלתא מילי רב שימי בר אשי חזייה לההוא גברא דבלע חיויא אידמי ליה כפרשא אוכליה כשותא במילחא וארהטיה קמיה תלתא מילי ונפק מיניה גובי גובי איכא דאמרי רב שימי בר אשי בלע חיויא אתא אליהו אידמי ליה כפרשא אוכליה כשותא במילחא וארהטיה קמיה תלתא מילי ונפק מיניה גובי גובי האי מאן דטרקיה חיויא ליתי עוברא דחמרא חיורתא וליקרעיה ולותביה עילויה והני מילי דלא אישתכח טרפה ההוא

and it [the poison of the snake] issued like a green palm-leaf. R. Awia said: A quarter [<i>log</i>] of milk from a white goat.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Is a good remedy for this. ');">²⁷</span> R. Huna b. Judah said: Let him obtain a sweet citron, scoop it out, fill it with honey, set it on burning embers [to boil], and then eat it. R. Hanina said: [One drinks] urine forty days old<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Or, of a babe forty days old. ');">²⁸</span> [as a remedy]; a barzina<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A small measure, one thirty-second of log. ');">²⁹</span> for [the sting of] a wasp; a quarter [<i>log</i>] for a scorpion [bite]; an eighth [of a <i>log</i>] for uncovered water; a quarter is efficacious even against witchcraft. R. Johanan said: Elaiogaron,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A sauce of oil and garum, to which wine is sometimes added (Jast.). ');">³⁰</span> kangad,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A kind of chervil. ');">³¹</span> and theriac are efficacious against both uncovered water and witchcraft. If one swallows a snake, he should be made to eat cuscuta with salt and run three mils. R. Shimi b. Ashi saw a man swallow a snake; thereupon he appeared to him in the guise of a horseman,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rashi: in order to frighten him, which would help to kill the snake. ');">³²</span> made him eat cuscuta with salt and run three mils before him, [and] it issued from him in strips.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The snake was broken up within him. ');">³³</span> Others say: R. Shimi b. Ashi swallowed a snake, thereupon Elijah came,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Elijah was thought to appear quite frequently to favoured persons: cf. B.M. 59b; Sanh. 113a; Keth. 61a, passim. ');">³⁴</span> appeared to him in the guise of a horseman, made him eat cuscuta with salt and run three mils before him, [and] it issued from him in strips. If one is bitten by a snake, he should procure an embryo of a white ass, tear it open, and be made to sit upon it; providing. however, that it was not found to be <i>terefah</i>. A certain

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