Find the worst pain people can endure

What is the most terrible pain that the brain can tolerate? Burned, stabbed by sharp objects or something else?

How much can people suffer?

The dreadful physical pain is always a necessity in life. We feel pain to know what danger is happening to ourselves. But have you ever wondered what the most terrible pain a human body can tolerate?

Find the most painful feeling .

People can feel a great deal of physical pain : from the sting of hand-cut paper to the extreme pain of giving birth . However, to determine which pain being the most horrible is a problem not easy.

As mentioned above, pain is a necessary experience of the body to identify danger . However, painful experience is different for each person, in which some people have higher pain thresholds than others. Explaining this difference, experts say it depends on the physiological mind of each person.

Even the difference between pain tolerance of two sexes is not uniform . In a study by the University of Bath (UK), men can tolerate pain longer than women. On the other hand, a study by the University of Michigan (USA) suggested that the hormone estrogen in the female body helps significantly reduce pain, especially the pain of childbirth (one of the most feared pain).

Therefore, determining the body's pain limit is relatively difficult. However, Justin Schmidt - an American ecologist - has created a pain assessment table , in which what he thinks is "unprecedented pain " is . an insect bite in Brazil : Kien ammunition (bullet ant).

Ants - creatures that cause the most terrible pain

The scientific name is Paraponera clavata, the bullet ant is named after the painful feeling like the bullet that it brings when it is bitten.

Ammunition - the thing that causes the biggest pain people can stand.

Bullet ants have 2 colors red or black, with relatively large size. An ant ant is an average of 1.8 - 3cm long, and looks easy to make people think of dangerous wasps. This ant species is mainly distributed in Central America and South America, in wet forests.

The bite of a bullet ant will accompany a venom. According to statistics from the victims, the bullet antidote also caused more terrible pain than the sting of the wasp Tarantula hawk parasite - the bee with stings feels like "electric shock".

Specifically, the experience of being bitten by ants is described as follows: The pain rises in waves, spreading throughout the body and causing convulsions, sweating. Venom also affects the nervous system, so just a few bites, the victim can "unconscious" . The pain usually persists for 24 hours and is described by the victims as: "the world has nothing but pain".

Experiences were bitten by bullets.

In addition, the terrible pain that the bullet venom brought was immediate and could not be stopped or relieved by the brain. It is the ability to cause intense pain that caused Justin Schmidt - who was bitten by 150 different poisonous insects - to claim to be the "worst pain people have ever known".

However, despite bringing extreme pain, the ant poison venom is not a deadly poison, nor does it have side effects after 24 hours. Based on this feature, people of the Satere-Mawe tribe of Brazil used bullets as "test objects" of warriors.

The bullet-proof glove of Satere-Mawe (Brazil).

As a rule, when the boys of the tribe came of age, they would have to put their hands on the gloves made of leaves filled with ants.

The performer will have to keep his hand in the 'glove' for 10 minutes. The usual result is that the hand and part of the arm will temporarily be paralyzed due to the venom, and will be uncontrollably convulsed for the next few days. In addition, to complete the challenge, the tribe's son will have to wear gloves a total of 20 times over months, even years.

The video below can give you some sense of how this "horrible" experience is.

This experience makes us question the 'measure' of human emotions. If it is possible to withstand the most terrible pain of the bullets, then is the human body able to withstand any more pain than that? The answer is still waiting to be discovered.