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Snake alcohol is sold openly along the streets in countries like Vietnam. The preservation of the snake in rice wine apparently makes it possible for the drinker to gain the multiple virtues of the snake – seen as a panacea, or even an elixir for long life. — Photos: Wikimedia Commons
Animals play a significant role in health processes, folk rituals and religious practices, and many cultures around the world associate snakes with wisdom, virility, fertility and healing. For centuries, traditional healers have been attracted by the snake’s incredible flexibility and speed of movement.
These discarded skins are a treasure trove of bioactive molecules and have been used in folk and traditional medicinal systems to treat acne, psoriasis, warts, scabies and eczema, among others. Although there isn’t enough scientific evidence to support these uses, a handful of TCM formulas still contain sloughed snakeskin.Lots of animals use venom for predation, killing or immobilising their prey before eating it.The effects of some snakebites can be quite mild and not all of them require antivenom treatment.
For example, captopril is the first successful and most reputed example of a drug developed using a component of snake venom extracted from the Brazilian arrowhead viper. Several snake venom components are now involved in preclinical or clinical trials for a variety of therapeutic applications. To speed up digestion after that monstrous meal, the python’s heart also gets bigger – 40% larger than normal – and it can take up to two weeks for a python to finish digesting its dinner.Like elite athletes who can build a larger, more muscular heart with years of exercise, the python adds heart muscle to provide the extra oxygen its body needs to handle a big meal.When scientists filtered out the red blood cells of a resting python, the remaining plasma was clear, similar to human plasma.
Heart aside, the Indian tribes of Bastar and Chattisgarh use cobra blood to increase sexual virility and performance.Snakes have a large gallbladder due to their feeding habits of swallowing large prey, which requires significant digestion of fats.
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