Rượu thuốc

This drink consists of herbs or animals soaked in alcohol as a folk medicine cure for diseases in Vietnam.[3] In one method, the snakes can be soaked, or macerated in wine along with other ingredients with medicinal properties in Chinese medicine including ginseng, scorpions, Ming ariala (Đinh lăng), Fallopia multiflora (Hà thủ ô đỏ), Morinda officinalis (Ba kích) etc to remove odour.In addition, rượu thuốc has external use on the skin including soaking, massaging, covering, and washing areas with pain to treat arthritis, sore muscles, hives, and so on.There have been cases where unregulated use of producing and consuming homemade rượu thuốc led to alcohol poisoning and skin allergies when used as topical treatments against acne.Alcohol poisoning from rượu thuốc happens mainly for two reasons, either the rice wine used did not come from a proper facility and contains methanol, a toxic alcohol used in various households and industrial agents,[7] or the ingredients used in the maceration process is toxic for consumption (i.e. Gelsemium elegans (Lá ngón), neglectful preparation of coucal (Chim bìm bịp) in rice wine without removing its viscera and fur containing parasites).
Several varieties of rượu thuốc . The first bottle from the right is tiger penis rượu thuốc
Several varieties of rượu thuốc . The first bottle from the right is gecko rượu thuốc , and the other is cobra rượu thuốc
A bottle of snake wine served on Cát Bà Island , Vietnam
A small bottle of rượu thuốc
Rượu thuốc in Phú Quốc island
A rượu thuốc store
Rượu thuốc in Hanoi
A stall selling rượu thuốc along with medicines in Vietnam
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