On a hike through the jungle to
> > visit an indian village, Jim was bitten on the arm by a conga ant. The
> > conga ant's "venom can cause a limb to swell so badly that it can't be
> > used for days." Jim claimed the bite felt like "five wasp stings in the
> > same spot." He shocked the wound with a stun gun and "within 30 to 60
> > seconds the pain was gone." Even though conga ant bites are supposed to
> > swell the whole limb, Jim had no swelling, only a discolored area the
> > diameter of a baseball. Dr. Guderian began the high voltage DC shock
> > treatment, not on snakebites, but originally on stings and bites from
> > scorpions, ants, bees, wasps, and other kinds of insects. In the
> > beginning he used the ignition systems of outboard motors and chainsaws
> > to treat the stings, but he later was sent a portable, battery powered
> > "buzzer-and-coil" setup from a friend in Indiana. Later on the same
> > friend sent him several Stun Guns to try out. While Jim Scroggins was in
> > Ecuador, a girl was stung on the toe by a scorpion and given the shock
> > treatment with a stun gun. After a few minutes the pain was gone and the
> > girl left the emergency room.
After Scroggins got home from his trip to
> > Ecuador, his wife was working in the yard when she was bitten on the
> > hand by four fire ants. "Donna starts getting a reaction to just one
> > fire-ant bite in about five minutes. Then, she goes into anaphylactic
> > shock and can't breathe." In the rush to go to the hospital, the
> > Scroggins took time to treat the hand with "two quick half-second zaps"
> > from a Nova Technologies Stun Gun. On the way to the hospital, the pain
> > had stopped, so they turned around and went home. "There was little or
> > no swelling, perhaps one third of what she usually gets from a single
> > bite." Dr. Guderian has found out through various sources that shocks
> > have been used to treat scorpion stings for years in places like India.
> > 40 years ago, people in Nigeria who were stung by scorpions were
> > commonly shocked with the ignition system of a motorcycle. High voltage
> > DC can be used to treat other things as well. While in the city of
> > Esmeraldas, Dr. Guderian had the opportunity to treat a child who had
> > been stung on the back by a stingray. He used a wire connected to an
> > automobile's ignition coil and 20 minutes after the treatment the child
> > was back in the water again playing as if nothing had happened. A Dr.
> > Stoddard, talked to by OUTDOOR LIFE, points out that bacteria, like
> > venom, is largely protein. So are viruses. In Europe, acne is being
> > treated with electricity. Dr. Guderian has treated boils with high
> > voltage DC. According to him, if a boil is treated before it comes to a
> > head, the swelling and reddness will be gone in three to four days. Dr.
> > Stoddard even suggests that in the future rabies may be treated with
> > electric shock. Dr. Guderian is amazed at how well the shock treatment
> > works to relieve pain. He suspects that the pain deactivation process is
> > separate from the deactivation of the poison. The article tells the
> > story of a Texas woman who suffers from severe migraine headaches and
> > voluteered to be treated with a stun gun. She was shocked on the back of
> > the neck and once on each side. The pain went away, but in the morning
> > it was back, only this time much weaker. The process was repeated again
> > and the pain totally vanished. It is proposed in the article that, "the
> > same high voltage shock that upsets the electrical charge of venom
> > proteins may upset the charges in body proteins that signal pain to our
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> > previous article is a summation and series of quotes from a two part
> > article that appeared in OUTDOOR LIFE magazine. The name of the article
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