At the beginning of June 2013, Ms. Liu, who lives in the Shuangcheng District of Harbin, Heilongjiang, is suffering from the treatment of rheumatism, the weather changes the joints are painful and itchy and numb, I heard that the poisonous snake soaking wine can treat rheumatism, so I asked my friend to get a living "soil ball" snake, prepared a liquor tank, poured a few pounds of high liquor and threw the snake into it at once, the snake fluttered a few times and did not move, and then Ms. Liu sealed the wine tank with a paper stopper.
After more than a month, Ms. Liu began to drink snake wine, and there is a valve in the lower side of this wine tank, which can be opened to release the wine, which is very convenient to use. By September 3, Ms. Liu found that there was little liquor left, so she prepared a few pounds of liquor, planning to pour it in and then bubble it.
Ms. Liu opened the wine jar, looked at the snake a little blocked the valve position, took a chopstick to play a few times, otherwise the next time blocked the wine can not be released, the result is that she did not expect that this "soil ball" snake suddenly "live" over, out of the mouth of the wine tank bite Ms. Liu's right hand.
"The effect of drinking bubble wine to cure rheumatism has not yet been shown, and I was first bitten into the hospital by the 'material' of bubble wine!"
Ms. Liu self-deprecatingly explained to the reporter, but what made her puzzled was that the snake was soaked in liquor for three months and did not die, and the author searched for information, there are many such cases, and the longest brewing time is actually as long as one year!
- In April 2001, a villager in Guangxi captured a cobra soaked in a rice wine jar, and one night a year later, he opened the altar of snake wine, but the snake in the altar suddenly jumped out, and was caught off guard by the snake's bite on the neck.
- In 2009, Mr. Zhang, a resident of a certain place in Hubei Province, bought a chilian snake from a vegetable market and went home to soak in 50 degrees of spirits. After 60 days, Mr. Zhang wanted to drink some snake wine to relieve his hunger, who knew that just after opening the cork, the snake inside suddenly jumped out and bit down his hand, fortunately it was a red chain snake, the poison was not strong, and Mr. Zhang who had been treated was not a big problem.
- There is also the case of India, in 2018, a young man named Arta Bashakan in India caught a 0.6-meter cobra, went back to soak in wine, a month later the boy opened the bottle to try the snake wine, the result you guessed, the snake came out, bit his wrist fiercely, the result was that the local hospital did not have antivenom, transferred to the hospital with conditional treatment when it was too late, the guy unfortunately died.
Bubble wine is the mainland's "traditional folklore", it is said that snake wine dispel wind and communication, live blood analgesia, detoxification and anti-terror are the curative effect of snake wine, and the effect of highly poisonous snake soaking wine is even worse, so many residents drink non-venomous snake bubble wine is not addictive, have to want poisonous snakes or even highly venomous snakes to soak wine, but what is puzzling is that this high wine plus soaked for several months or even a year, how can this snake not die?
Highly alcoholic snake, why is the snake not dead?
This is what makes everyone most curious, it is reasonable to say that the snake is soaked in liquor, the high wine will choke into the respiratory system of the snake, that is bound to die, even if it does not die at that time, this long period of alcohol soaking, the snake's body will also be infiltrated to cause death, so what is the process of the snake running after running the wine and not dying?
Will the snake sink into the wine?
Many friends have seen snakes can float on the surface of the water and swim, which is not that the body density of snakes is lower than that of water, in fact, the two are similar, but slightly lower Many times they can also dive underwater, to float is also very simple, power to float and then inhale a breath of air, expand the lungs to maintain buoyancy.
The one marked "right lung" in gray is the lungs
Snake lungs are relatively large, so many aquatic snakes can stay underwater for a long time. The density of alcohol is relatively low, only about 0.79 (relative to 1 of water), generally 50 ° liquor contains about 50% ethanol, then the proportion of this liquor is about 0.9, slightly lower than the snake, the snake is more difficult to float up, but if the lungs have air and sufficient, then let the head out is no problem, the first problem, the snake can not sink in the liquor.
The second question, the bottle is sealed, there is no air, how can the snake live?
The crux of the matter is, the snake has to breathe no matter how good it is, doesn't it? Two questions arise here, one is whether the wine jar is really sealed, and the other is whether the snake will "hibernate" under extreme conditions.
Snakes, reptiles, under normal conditions, the energy demand is very low, that is to say, even if it does not eat or drink can persist for a long time, metabolism is not high, so in a low-oxygen environment can survive for a long time, if the cork is not tight or leaks air, such as in the case at the beginning of this article, Ms. Liu from the valve below to drink, while releasing wine, the outside air will enter the wine altar, there is an air circulation channel inside and outside, otherwise the wine will not be released.
The other is what are the conditions for snakes to "hibernate"? Many friends may only know hibernation, do not know that some snakes can also sleep in summer, that is to say, in the summer of bad conditions, you can also sleep in summer, such as the snake island pit viper of Dalian Snake Island, spring and autumn because of migratory birds passing, food is rich and hunting, to summer and winter two seasons is lack of food, summer sleep, winter hibernation, so snakes in bad conditions "hibernation" is a case.
But the hibernation of snakes is not the same as the hibernation of mammals, mammals will decline in activity, body temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate during hibernation, or in a deep sleep, while cold-blooded animals hibernate is a state called "Brumation", which can be active when the temperature rises, that is, snakes wake up, may be at any time, unlike mammals that need a cycle reaction time.
In addition, in general, like the snake body surface has a layer of secreted body fat protection, alcohol is a good solvent, but the dissolution of lipids is not good, so the snake body surface can be guaranteed not to be invaded by alcohol for a long time, especially snakes that have not been choked to death at the beginning.
Therefore, in the more extreme cases, it is still possible for the snake to maintain its vitality, and in the above-mentioned case of a villager in Guangxi in 2001 who caught a cobra soaking in a rice wine jar and was bitten to death, the family later found that the rice wine jar was missing a corner of the mouth, and there was air circulation with the outside world, and the alcohol content of rice wine was lower, about 10 degrees, and there was air, just like bath water.
Friends who like to drink snake bubble wine, may wish to pick up the pouring wine to see, if the snake's head floats on the surface of the wine, then the snake is likely to be alive, if it is immersed in the liquor for a long time, it should be dead.
Extended reading: Is the poisonous snake brewing wine really not poisonous?
Everyone's understanding must have a poisonous attack on the venom, and the poisonous snake soaking wine to cure rheumatism is also everyone's inherent understanding, and there are also sayings that snake venom is also protein, and the digestive juice is completely decomposed and non-toxic.
But in fact, it is not, drinking snake wine poisoning cases and soaked wine snake bite as much, such as in 2011 Mr. Lin'an Huang drank three months of five-step snake wine, the result led to paralysis of the lesson is very painful, the author searched the literature, the results found that foreign scientists have long studied the evidence of snake venom directly absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract, in the stomach acid has not been decomposed in time to be absorbed into the vein.
The symptoms of the result are very similar to snake venom poisoning, and because there is not enough vigilance, delaying treatment will eventually lead to serious consequences, so you must not drink snake wine easily, once the tragedy is caused, there is no regret medicine.