Using live poisonous snakes to soak wine, its excrement and substances appearing in the process of death and decay may be harmful to human body, and alcohol cannot completely kill viruses and parasites in its body.

Poisonous snakes should not be drunk indiscriminately: cobra, bamboo leaf green and other poisonous snakes are very toxic, so the medicinal liquor soaked with them cannot be easily taken orally or externally. Snake venom can penetrate into the skin and affect renal function. Some snakes have unknown toxicity and can be life-threatening.

The so-called poisonous snakes are good for people's health, which is just a folk saying and has no scientific basis. So don't make wine with poisonous snakes.

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Zhu, deputy director of the emergency department of Suzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, also said that "snake wine" has the effects of expelling wind and dredging collaterals, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, detoxifying and calming the nerves. All kinds of snakes have different toxicity and different functions, so you can't eat them indiscriminately.

In the processing method, generally speaking, it is necessary to remove the snake head, the snake tail and the poison sac, and soak two or three kinds of snakes with the same toxicity in high-quality liquor with a temperature of more than 50 degrees for more than one year, so that the toxic protein decomposition toxicity of poisonous snakes completely disappears.

However, the soaking time should not be too long, and it is best to use it up within five or six years, otherwise the "snake wine" will also deteriorate. In addition, it is advisable to take 25 ml (two tablespoons) of wine each time.

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