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Snake wine and Scorpion wine are asian beverages that can be found in some Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Laos Cambodia, but also in Korea, and Japan.

To prepare this incredible beverage a cobra snake or some scorpions are put into a bottle fulfilled with transparent rice wine liquor and some herbs are added before the drink is left to ferment for months. The venomous cobra snake used to make Snake wine is preserved to have the snake poison dissolved in the rice wine, but because snake venoms are protein-based they are inactivated by the denaturing effects of ethanol, and no more dangerous, but this makes a healthy liquor with many health benefits.

Many types of snake drinks can be found all across Asia, but the most famous one and the only original one is the one found in Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos, the famous Snake wine that you can only find online.


Southeast Asia’s cuisine has a drink made with a twist: an entire venomous snake.

The consumption of snake wine was originally for medicinal purposes and many still drink it for those reasons. The beliefs of snakes’ healing abilities are derived from snake characteristics like agility, skin shedding, and speed. The flexibility of snakes is believed to be a good treatment for stiffness and arthritis. Their ability to shed their skin translates into a regenerative quality for skin ailments, such as acne or itching skin. Another healing property snakes are know for is their speed. Its speed represents how quickly the healing occurs and moves fast throughout the body. Some versions of this wine is made with the actual blood and bile of the snake. Snake wine is so gross and hardcore at the same time.

Culled from the net... More details at
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_wine

health benefits huh?? i ne dey drink!!!!

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Southeast Asia’s cuisine has a drink made with a twist: an entire venomous snake.

The consumption of snake wine was originally for medicinal purposes and many still drink it for those reasons. The beliefs of snakes’ healing abilities are derived from snake characteristics like agility, skin shedding, and speed. The flexibility of snakes is believed to be a good treatment for stiffness and arthritis. Their ability to shed their skin translates into a regenerative quality for skin ailments, such as acne or itching skin. Another healing property snakes are know for is their speed. Its speed represents how quickly the healing occurs and moves fast throughout the body. Some versions of this wine is made with the actual blood and bile of the snake. Snake wine is so gross and hardcore at the same time.

Eeeeewww, vey gross......

Are those snake stil alive?

BluePinkee: Eeeeewww, vey gross......

Yep! Very gross but hardcore! May be you should also consider that snake venoms are protein-based, thereby making it a healthy liquor with many health benefits...

D.AMN! Somebody look at those scorpions

Daaayyyuuummmm!!!!!. Which kind beverage be this. Its so disgusting but if e reach some limit man no go get choice o than to drink am but I don't pray for such limits

Yuck!

Not only in Asia, I have seen in Nigeria too, but not in commercial quantity. But it's of medical significance

*Runs away from thread*

where can I order for one

Richfella: *Runs away from thread*

*Drag you back to thread and offer you a shot of snake wine on the rock, shaking, not stirred*

This look very sweet,where can i bought it?Ego sweet like sugar cane/honey.

Abdul Adam56: This look very sweet,where can i bought it?Ego sweet like sugar cane/honey.

VERY SOON THESE GUYS WILL COME OUT WITH HUMAN PARTS WINES AND TELL US OF THE HEALTH BENEFITS AS WELL

Maxymilliano:
*Drag you back to thread and offer you a shot of snake wine on the rock, shaking, not stirred*

Lol. Sorry sir! You mistake me for a certain Mr Bond. My name is Okoro .

gree-die:
health benefits huh?? i ne dey drink!!!!

Why? I heard it can make you strong and healthy...

@topic. How much is a bottle sold, I'd like to purchase one and drink.

CrazyMan:
Why? I heard it can make you strong and healthy...

@topic. How much is a bottle sold, I'd like to purchase one and drink.

CrazyMan, can this thread grace the front page?

~vicky~:
Grotesque! But just out of curiosity, how do they get the cobra and scorpion in the bottle?
(Although, I probably don't want to know.)

Good question.

CrazyMan:
Why? I heard it can make you strong and healthy...

well den i better not be sick cz i ain't taking dat even if my life depends on it....... i think

yuck yuck

Thanks, but no thanks.

Hmmm iv heard some stories about this wine, if i'm not mistaken there was a similar thread recently...

Me and my man must try some.... I want to see these healing qualities

omfg!!

Are those snakes alive?

Huh

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