Posted on 09/22/2024 9:58:08 AM PDT by tsomer
"During the past 2 decades, articles suggesting that stun guns be utilized to treat venomous bites and stings have appeared in both the lay and medical press."
(Excerpt) Read more at pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ...
But seriously, you still hear the claim & it's thoroughly debunked--probably the result of a 'dry bite' & desperation. But could it have actually worked because of the shock was administered at some particular frequency that some original subject serendipitously received. I know some of us freepers have considerable experience in electricity and snakebite and more than a few with both. The question then: could there be a way to neutralize snake venom using destructive resonance at a particular frequency carried by electrical current, frequency dependent? If so, I get a cut of the patent royalties.
I’ll stick to eating laundry detergent packs.
It would seem that it would be possible.
They have the packs for dishwashers now also.
I have heard campfire stories of cattle prods and tazers being utilized.
One story had happened in Brownwood and they had to drive to San Antonio to get proper care. All the way, the victim was getting lit up by a friend. By the time they got to the ER, it was just a nasty bite.
I do t know, but I would be willing to try if I ever got bit by a rattler.
If someone’s been bit by a venomous snake, why not hit them with a stun gun and beat them with a stick?
I love your wit, too funny!
Probably campfire lore. Not all North American snakebites untreated with antivenom are fatal.
hey joe come over here for a second...
They’re talking about this with corona:
“On the fundamental level, the sonification technique works based on exerting in-tune frequencies of the applied energy and the microbes such that a resonant phenomenon can be created. Consequently, the microbes would vibrate indefinitely under the resonant frequency until the occurrence of cell wall rupture that ends with disintegration and eventually death.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016823007056
Remember the “Is it real or is it memorex?” commercial with the shattered wine glass? That sort of thing.
We want to keep this a clean thread.
As I understand it, most of these venoms are proteins. And electric current will denature and destroy proteins.
In fact there’s a lot of info from NIH and other places online about this. Just search for ‘denaturing proteins with electricty’.
Seems like someone didn’t do much real research on this.
We should pre-shock venomous snakes and head off the problem.
Exactly What Royal Rife created the Beam Rayt to do.
First I get bit by a snake, and then you want to raze me (bro)? No f’ing thanks.
Take. Damned small screen!
TAZE!
The argument made in the Outdoor Life articles many years ago was that the body had one state of charge and the venom had the opposite charge so it more or less stuck together like a magnet. The electrical charge broke those bonds and allowed the venom to go systemic so that it was diluted and the body was better able to deal with that.
They “documented” people in 3rd world countries that normally would have died enroute to the hospital many hours away being saved by using a sparkplug lead off of a car.
My plan is just to never get bit.
Brownwood to San Antonio? There are a lot of good hospitals a lot closer than San Antonio.
Brown recluse bite, use a taser on it a few times as it lumps up. Score the skin and sanitize with iodine. It works and no doctor visit needed. The same works for tick bites, taze the spot.... it can’t hurt the outcome.
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