Special Snake Wine

DATE:21-07-2011

"Special snakes reside on leaves in Yongzhou, with black texture and white stripes ...", it is a sentence appearing in On a Serpent Catcher written by Liu Zongyuan in Yongzhou, which along with his famous poem of Fishing in Snow, and eight travel notes raise the publicity of Yongzhou special snakes among the Chinese around the world. As Yongzhou special snake, Yongzhou special snake wine is also well-known for its pungent and warm-natured, which has such effects as expelling wind and clearing away cold, as well as relaxing the muscles and stimulating the blood circulation. When traditional Chinese medicine effective for treating wind-cold-dampness arthralgia is refined with wine, the power of the drug accesses limbs and joints with the aid of alcohol, so that promotion of blood circulation lead to elimination of rheumatism, and the strengthening of bones and muscles causes recovery from paralytic illnesses. Moreover, long-term drinking will have a good therapeutic effect on chronic rheumatoid arthritis.