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.)
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