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[Keith Benson <kgbenson@mindspring.com>]

list@ginda.us wrote:

> I read a couple of years ago that electric shocks had become popular 
> in Africa as a treatment for poisonous snake bites, and various 
> medical folks were studying it to see if the effect was real.  The 
> article (in a main-stream science magazine) was sympathetic to the 
> idea that it might work - like most of the other remedies folks have 
> posted here, an electric shock will disrupt proteins.
>
> Has the FDA "clamped down" on this device for being unproved or for 
> being dangerous?  Do you know?  As you said, you don't need a special 
> device, although it may be safer than the other easy options.  In 
> Africa, people were mostly using auto batteries.  (Probably not worth 
> the risk for a yellow jacket sting, but well worth it for some of the 
> deadlier snake bites.) 


There is zero evidence that they are efficaceous, and used improperly, 
or jury rigged, even dangerous.

Keith

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