First of all, before anyone gets mad. D: I am not a fan of thinking that exotic animals make our body/mind stronger and stuff. It's just something I came across and recalled. Please don't start any flame here. (I don't know if it would, but I hope there won't be any >A>;; )

I was having a conversation about snakes with Moth and I suddenly recalled about those scary looking Snake Wine that I saw when I was little in Chinatown. They were like a big bottle of snakes, big and small with herbs in them, soaked in rice wine. Some times they have scorpions and seahorses.. etc too.

I don't see them as much now as compared to in the past in where I live, I guess it could also be the older chinese drug stores closed down and are replaced with the new ones and the new ones don't sell weird stuff ^^;;;. I used to stare into the bottle when I get any chance to go into the chinese drug store to get other herbs and stuff.

Here's what Wikipedia says about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_wine