Snake wine – specific Asian drink, which is a tincture of snakes, preferably venomous, in rice wine or grain alcohol. The snake venom should not be afraid: it decomposes ethanol. And snakes are assumed to produce only the best – health, strength and longevity.
The oldest mention of the use of snake wine, indicate the ancient China (the era of the Western Zhou dynasty), where to the snakes since ancient times, the attitude is very attentive, and to use them tried everything. The medical use of snakes is described in treatises about 300 BC
Today this drink is doing well in Vietnam and Taiwan, and are not necessarily limited to snakes, adding to the Scorpions, lizards and herbs.
Sturdy “snake wine” is used the shot is either added as an elixir for beverages and food.
Take this exotic drink on the Homeland is not all, because in some countries floating in these bottles reptiles are protected as being endangered.
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