Why is poisonous snake not poisonous when soaked in wine?

As we all know, cobra, five-step snake, golden ring snake, rattlesnake, bamboo leaf pit viper, etc. are all extremely venomous snake species. Poisonous snake soaked in wine has the effects of dispelling wind and dredge meridians, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, relieving pain, removing toxins, and strengthening the body. This has long been recorded in Chinese traditional Chinese medicine works. So, why does the wine become non-toxic when the poisonous scorpion is soaked in it?

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records that even if it is a highly venomous snake, its venom has been lost after being roasted or dried during drying, and the snake venom is a specific trypsin.

This type of specific trypsin will lose its specificity if it is processed under the following conditions:

High temperature drop 100℃;

The extremely strong chemical effects of blood pressure;

Solvents with higher concentrations in blood.

In fact, poisonous scorpions are basically treated before being soaked in medicinal wine to eliminate their toxic side effects. Everyone has seen it. Basically, they hold its fangs on the edge of a cup and let the venom flow out along the edge of the cup until there is almost no liquid flowing out. Then they pull out its fangs and remove the venom glands. The scorpion will then have almost no toxic side effects.

Besides, why wouldn't people be poisoned by the small amount of toxic side effects that may not have been completely eliminated? This is because snake venom is a protein, and when we use venomous snakes to make wine, we always use wine with a higher concentration, and ethanol is alcohol. Alcohol is a well-recognized solvent with excellent penetrating power, which makes it easy to enter the cells of snake venom tissues and dissolve most of the water-soluble substances in the venom as well as organic substances that are insoluble in water and must be dissolved with optically active solvents. Generally, in fermented rice containing 40% alcohol, specific trypsin will lose its specificity. In addition, it can also slow down the hydrolysis reaction of many drugs and improve the reliability of drugs.

Therefore, drinking wine made from scorpion medicine will not only prevent poisoning, but on the contrary, after the dissolving effect of wine, the poison will be turned into treasure and become one of the panaceas for treating rheumatism, arthritis and other symptoms.