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  • From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] venom
  • Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 23:46:02 -0400

I have no idea what the mechanism could be, but I read a popular summary of a scientific study in South America that found electricity helpful against venom. The authors said it was a folk remedy, and they were dubious, so they set up a study, and found it worked well. That was about 5 years ago, probably in "Science News".

Ginda


On May 14, 2009, at 11:39 PM, Douglas Woodard wrote:

Proteins can be really complex structures whose function depends for
example on the way they are folded. If venom depends for its action on
something which can be easily disrupted, and proteins in cells are at
least somewhat protected, I don't find it impossible that electric
current could protective. Presumably the venom has to be more or less
soluble to be harmful, and the electric current might make it insoluble.

I too would like more exact information, but research is not free.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Sheridan Shumway wrote:
i would love to see the science behind how it works cause i just cant wrap my mind around how it could possibly work.....venom isnt actually anything special, its just a protein....in my mind saying electrical shock works to destroy it is like saying boiling water will(which it will) but your going to screw up all the other proteins there aswell....you could slow down venom by putting your bitten hand into a pot of boiling water and holding it there....but its going to destroy alot of other stuff aswell....just cant wrap my head around how electrical shock can destroy the proteins that make up venom but leave the rest of the proteins(human tissue) in the area of the bite unhurt...would love to see the science explaining why it works if it truely does....

Sheridan S.
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