You can get this easily on ebay, and I got some as a present awhile back. Of course, I never opened the bottle... has anyone actually drank this stuff? Without going blind?

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This is available in a lot of places in Asia and I got a few bottles in Vietnam for about 1-2USD each. I totally freaked out the security guard at an airport in the French countryside when I had the bottles in my carry on so they wouldn't break. They opened the bag to see what was inside and the woman shrieked and I thought that maybe they were contraband. But, she just made sure they were snakes and let me go. These bottles are opened regularly for brave drinkers at my house. It's basically unfiltered rice wine and isn't anything too terribly scary.

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oh, and the mystical sexual powers are overrated, as one might expect

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A friend has a bottle of sake with a snake in it that he's had for years and years and years. Supposedly you can keep refilling with the cheaper sake and the snake will mellow it out. Every year around New Years we have to remind everyone not to shake the bottle or you'll get scales everywhere...

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I'm fairly certain that my science teacher at school kept a liquor bottle with a snake in it. There was a rumor that she had a drinking problem. I never assumed the two were related, but looking that this stuff makes me think again...

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1. In my experience, most Asian medicinal concoctions work pretty well. Not as well as, say, Viagra or Vicodin, but pretty well. Ginseng in particular is a pretty powerful herb, and chiles are stimulating. The hormones and enzymes in several animals have powerful medicinal properties, including in my personal experience, gecko, tiger, bear, preying mantis, seahorse, turtle, and others. Now that these animals are mostly endangered, the search is on for better plant medicinals.

2. Commercial grade Asian medicinal liquors usually are compounded with absolutely the bottom grade of industrial alcohol. Yuck!

3. I would have to be pretty drunk already to drink snake wine, but from the described ingredients, it would keep one awake for a few hours. So would strong coffee.

This kind of thing is mostly used in macho male bonding rituals. In some places, including NYC if you know who to ask, you can get a glass of snake blood, and the desanguinated snake is barbecued for your delictation.

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Yeah, sure. The snake's just in there to take up space and reduce the amount of actual booze in the bottle, increasing margins. ;-)

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