.. "The human tradition of eating snakes and using snakes for medicinal purposes goes back a long way. In subtropical Taiwan, with its many native snakes, there were once snake research institutes and snake shops everywhere, and people made use of all kinds of snake products-snake meat, snake blood, snake penis, snake skin, and snake venom.
溯自於人類長遠的吃蛇與以蛇入藥傳統，多蛇的亞熱帶台灣，過去到處有所謂的毒蛇研究所、蛇店，人們從蛇肉、蛇血、蛇鞭、蛇皮、蛇毒，展開對蛇的多樣性利用。