A person has claimed that a venomous snake sealed in a jar for a 12 months survived and bit him when he opened it, inflicting him to be rushed to hospital.

The person from Heilongjiang, mainland China, purchased three venomous snakes submerged in a jar of medicinal wine with the intention to deal with his son's power sickness, The China Instances reported. The person had tried many different therapies to no avail, the newspaper stated.

Snake wine is a standard Chinese language liquor ready by placing a venomous snake, often whereas it's nonetheless alive, inside a jar of rice wine. It's then left to marinate over a number of months.

Whereas it's broadly believed that the wine holds useful properties as an anti-inflammatory and painkiller, scientists have discounted the idea and put the observe down as merciless, inhumane and ineffective.

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A photograph reveals snake wine being bought in China. Some consider snakes can survive in whereas submerged. PETER PARKS //Getty Pictures

In accordance with Nationwide Geographic, ingesting snake wine may be harmful because of the risk that the snake could have survived. It stated that generally, the snakes can go on lethal parasites to the individual ingesting the wine.

The China Instances reported that after the person was bitten by the dwell snake, he was handled in a well timed method and survived. It stated related instances have been reported previously, claiming that generally, snakes can enter a dormant state that may final a number of years. Additionally, the newspaper stated if the jar shouldn't be sealed correctly, snakes have survived with sufficient air coming into to maintain them.

Nevertheless Wolfgang Wüster, a reader in zoology and herpetology at Bangor College in Wales, instructed Newsweek that that is all "biologically not possible."

"No snake can survive submerged in any sort of liquid in a bottle for greater than an hour or in order a most. Snakes don't have any magical powers, they're product of flesh and bone like another animal, and require meals, water and oxygen to outlive," he stated.

Wüster additionally stated snakes do not need medical properties. He stated this conventional medication is "truly ineffective" and famous the impacts it has on different endangered species resembling pangolins.

"Many species are endangered as a consequence of reckless overharvesting for so-called conventional medicines," he stated.

Some snakes change into inactive at sure temperatures however there needs to be sufficient oxygen obtainable. The state is called brumation, which is the cold-blooded creature equal of hibernation. Throughout brumation, a snake's metabolism slows all the way down to preserve power, they usually change into much less lively. This often occurs in the course of the winter when meals shouldn't be as obtainable.

Because of this, there's hypothesis that if there's sufficient oxygen in a jar of rice wine and it's saved at a sure temperature, the snake could enter this state. Nevertheless, for a snake to outlive for as much as a 12 months in such circumstances is unlikely.