Snakes may go dormant after being soaked in a bottle of wine. The bottle is not sealed and air can get in, and the wine is not always full. At this point the snake's metabolism is lowered and it can sustain life for a long time without eating or drinking and breathing weakly.

Snake wine is known as "the treasure of wine". But the poisonous snake wine can not drink : cobra, bamboo leaf green snake and other poisonous snakes are very toxic, with its soaked wine can not be easily taken internally and can not be used externally. Snake venom can penetrate into the skin, affecting kidney function, but also some snakes in the body of the unknown toxicity will be life-threatening.

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Snake wine immersion method:

1, live immersion method: grab a live snake, put it alone in a clean snake box closed about 1 month, during the period of no water and food, the purpose is to allow it to empty the abdominal excreta. Before soaking the snake thoroughly clean, wipe dry with a clean cloth, and finally the fresh snake directly immersed in more than 50 degrees of pure grain white wine, and sealed storage. The ratio of snake to wine is 1:10.

2, fresh dip method: kill a healthy and disease-free live snake, dissect the internal organs and rinse with water, put a small amount of white wine to be sterilized (about 5 minutes), carry out when shaking the net, placed in a pre-prepared pure grain wine, snake wine can be in the ratio of 1:5 or so. Sealed for three months can drink wine and drink.

3, dry immersion method: take a well-processed snake dry, scaled and weighed, immersed in the weight of the weight of the snake dry weight 5 ~ 10 times the pure grain wine, preferably about 60 degrees of white wine, such as Beijing Erhotou, Hengshui Laobaijian, Wuliangye, etc., closely stored for 3 ~ 6 months to take drink. Dried snakes soaked in wine are useful to soak whole, but also cut into inch sections or crushed and soaked.

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