Snake wine and scorpion wine

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.

In my view, this is a sad fate for noble creatures, especially because as I understand it the purported "health benefits" are to increase the "sexual performance" of gullible men.

Pix and text via Sakkoo.