Speaking of which, the folk use of snakes to brew wine, as a medicinal practice, began as early as 2,000 years ago, and as early as the "Shennong Materia Medica", the medicinal value of live snake brewing wine was recorded.
Until today, although it is said that it is not recommended that everyone use snakes to make wine, and this statement has no scientific basis, it belongs to a not very reliable folk remedy, but there are still many people who use snakes to brew wine.
This will also lead to many tragedies, for example, the general use of poisonous snakes for brewing wine, and some snakes if the venom is too strong, the venom seeps into the wine, whether it is internal or external, in fact, there is a risk of poisoning, and may even threaten life.
Of course, this is not the most terrible, the real terrible thing is that in the folk, there are often people who use snakes to make wine at home, and when they take wine, they are bitten by the snakes soaked in the wine.
First of all, in 2001, there was a villager in Guangxi who heard that poisonous snakes were good for the body, so they went to the wild and caught a cobra and soaked it in the rice wine jar, and soon, a year's time passed, and the villager felt that his snake wine was soaked when the time came, and decided to drink a little to make up for it.
Unexpectedly, when opening the rice wine jar, he was bitten by the cobra that had been soaked in it for a year, and the villager was also poisoned too deeply and died the next day.
In Heilongjiang, there are also such things happening, in 2017, a lady opened a pot of snake wine that has been soaked for more than 3 months, but she did not expect that the snake soaked in the wine was also in the moment of opening, and suddenly jumped up and bit the lady.
It can be said that because the folk have always had the tradition of live snakes brewing wine, there are actually many similar situations, so why can the snakes soaked in the wine survive in a sealed environment?
In this regard, some people will say that snakes are vindictive, and they will remember who harmed themselves, which is like the southern part of our country, in the past, people in some places have the habit of eating snakes, so there will often be cooks, or when they make snakes at home, they are cut off and let the snake's head bite for a long time.
Especially in the northeast of Our country, people believe that the snake is a very spiritual animal, in the northeast of the "five immortals", the snake is on the list, naturally, people are more convinced that the snake in the snake wine will bite people, because they are not willing to be soaked in wine, so as to retaliate against the people who soaked it.
First of all, the answer, the snake will retaliate against people, which is complete nonsense, because the snake is a very inferior animal, they are not smart, and the snake is still "super short-sighted", can not see around at all, completely by feeling, not to mention the snake will know what the person who hurts him looks like.
So why, in the sealed wine altar, snakes are soaked for months, even years, normally, in the absence of oxygen, snakes should have died long ago, why are they still alive? Could it be that snakes have "nine lives", or can they live in an oxygen-free environment?
Speaking of which, this is related to what we think of as a "sealed" wine altar, which is actually not 100% sealed, because the snake is a species that can make its metabolism extremely slow according to changes in the external environment, so as to enter the "dormant" state, and in this process, if the wine altar seal is not so tight, as long as there is still a trace of air in the outside world, then, for snakes, it is enough for them to survive.
Therefore, when the wine altar is opened, at this time, a large amount of external air flows in, the snake perceives the change, it will wake up, at this time, if you use a spoon to stir, then the snake will instinctively launch an attack and bite the person close to the wine altar.
Although it seems incredible, since there is a risk that the snake will not die when it is brewed in wine, why not directly use the dead snake to brew wine? In this way, don't you worry that the snake will bite people?
It seems that this is true, but since ancient times, people have believed that if you use a dead snake to make wine, then the medicinal effect will be greatly reduced, so people are still more willing to use live snakes to make wine.
But in fact, there is no scientific study at present that the effect of live snake brewing wine will be better, at the same time, there is no research found that snake brewing wine will have a strong health value, after all, using snakes to brew wine is more harmful than beneficial, and because of the reasons of poisonous snakes, it will also lead to safety factors not being guaranteed, and the risk is extremely high.
Therefore, here is also a reminder that if the body is unwell, then it is best to go to the hospital for examination, do not believe in "home remedies to cure serious diseases", so that their condition is delayed.