Doesn't seem to help with being dragged off your feet:
Vines wrap around your legs and take root at your feet.
The fungus grabs at you with its tentacles for 6 damage, dragging you off your feet.You catch it with an explosive round. It deals 7 damage.
You shoot the fungus for 5 damage.
The tentacles drop you to the floor. You hit hard and go down in a heap, suffering 18 damage.
Also - I'm getting this message now. I'm assuming that the wording was slightly changed so that it makes more sense for Dripping Gore, but may be a more subtle trigger.:
The vines around your legs writhe and grow, eating away at the sludge painted over you.