Pengshui Five-Step Snake Wine

Pengshui Five-Step Snake Wine

Pengshui Five-Step Snake Wine is a geographical indication certification trademark.

　　Pengshui Five-Step Snake Wine is a specialty of Pengshui County, Chongqing.

　　The five-step snake, scientifically known as Deinagkistrodon acutus, belongs to the Viperidae family. It is highly venomous and aggressive. There is a folk legend that if a person is bitten by a five-step snake, they will die within five steps. In reality, being bitten by a five-step snake does not lead to death in just five steps, but the wound is extremely painful, and if the venom acts quickly, the victim may die within two hours. The Tang Dynasty writer Liu Zongyuan mentioned the five-step snake in his work "The Story of the Snake-Catcher," describing it as “capable of causing all plants it touches to wither, and when it bites a person, there is no way to resist it,” which shows how fearsome it is. According to the "Extensive Records of the Taiping Era" compiled during the Song Dynasty, the five-step snake is described as “black in color with an upturned snout, coiled in the grass. Its fangs are hooked backward; it can strike from several steps away, swift as an arrow. A bite causes instant death—biting a hand severs it, biting a foot severs it, and otherwise, it causes the entire body to swell and rot, with almost no chance of survival.”

　　Five-step snake medicinal wine is highly effective in relieving rheumatism.

　　Pengshui Five-Step Snake Wine

　　 Agricultural Service Center of Lujiao Town, Pengshui Miao-Tujia Autonomous County

　　 11473948

　　 Medicinal wine