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Arrow poisons can be roughly classified into African, South American, and Asian types. Arrow poisons from Africa are predominantly cardiac poisons containing cardenolides, whereas those from South America are almost exclusively muscle‐paralyzing or curarizing poisons and contain alkaloids. Arrow poisons from Asia are mainly cardiac poisons with tetanizing poisons and thus contain cardenolides and alkaloids. With few exceptions, African and most Asian arrow poisons are extremely deadly with no antidote. South American curare poisons, on the contrary, can usually be survived by true antidote or artificial respiration [1, 3]. There are concerns about the rapidly disappearing use of arrow poisons [3, 9].