Thanks for the replies.
I didn’t do much research on this and my med background is slim to none. I worked one of those “allied” medical services back when. The impetus for this is my morbid fascination with Youtube venomous snake and snake-bite videos. (I alternate between ‘reptiles’ and ‘psychopaths.’)
I’m not talking about “denaturing” the proteins by simply overwhelming the equilibrium between the bonds. Apparently they reconstitute themselves immediately after.
I’m talking about matching the frequency of the current to the resonance frequency of the protein chains at high enough amplitude to cause their breakdown and neutralize the venom without causing surrounding tissue harm.
Though no doubt some of the anecdotes were based on dry bites, I don’t think they all were; the shock delivered from a spark plug is a pulsed current. Did somebody get lucky and hit the sweet-spot with the frequency?
If so, then a hand-held device could be made.
It sure would beat antivenom.
Anything’s possible. There might be some aspect of the venom that resonates, it seems like a tuned ultrasound or more of a electromagnetic wave would have a better chance. The tazers I think would be too crude. The venom molecules would move, be positional, more. The venom is also not a single protein/chemical. There is almost no way it would not hurt other proteins, though that might not matter.
Antivenom would still be needed because the venom does not only have one mechanism to cause pathology, plus is spreads more of less depending on the site, blood flow, etc. If it gets into the system there is too much body to treat.
Protein chemical bonds do not re-attach when broken without an enzyme or similar process. When we eat they are broken down to amino acids before being absorbed. Our body does not really absorbing foreign proteins even if it has to break them and re-build them. It wants them done right!
Proteins do FOLD and there are mainly electric and other bonds and properties that make the lump chain of amino acids that is a protein tend to assume a certain shape. THOSE usually can hook back up. However as you indicated that would not help much probably.
Have a good week!