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Originally Posted by BrotherEastman
Nope, not gonna try it.
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It's quite interesting to watch them prepare this medicinal cure for what ails you. It's a popular winter (cold weather) tonic.
They take a live snake, slit it while it's still alive from the neck all along the belly. They reach inside while the thing is still writhing and wriggling and pull the skin back. Then they reach inside the snake's belly and pull out the bile.
They they drain that into these little cups and mix it with some kind of Chinese whiskey in little cups. The men gulp it down in one swallow.
Fascinating to watch!
They also give this to kids who are suffering from some types of illness.
The first time we saw this was at a Chinese night market in Hong Kong. We saw this group of men all gathered around this one particular vendor and I wanted to get closer to see what it was they were all so fascinated with.
There was all these snakes in cages and the vendor had one holding it up and the men seemed very interested and excited with what was happening. I thought it was horrifying and disgusting and pulled back away and left.
Later I realized that what was going on was what I described above ..... slitting these snakes and getting the bile out of liver for medicinal purposes.
Amazing.
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