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RE: Liquor medicine of machacaca or blind snake
Thank you for sharing more about this interesting medicine from your town and region! Why do you think the snake is decreasing in numbers? Habitat loss or overharvesting of it? I love to learn about old remedies like this. Sounds like a very “warning” remedy. You said one of the names is “viper”- does this snake contain poison? So glad you’re a part of @naturalmedicine!
Thank you very much for your interest @mountainjewel, well I must tell you that the snake "machacaca" or blind has been losing its natural habitat in my community, part that is a snake difficult to find because it digs tunnels where it is hidden, it is called blind because he does not see by day and uses his natural sensors. There is a belief that they went away when the elders began to die.
It is a completely harmless snake, it is not poisonous, it resembles rather a huge earthworm, although in other states and places it is also known as a blind vivara.
Interesting. So no one is carrying on the legacy of this particular medicine? Is this type of medicine as a whole dying out in your community? You obviously are interested!
Yes friend, in fact this kind of natural medicine is almost not practiced, the few people who have their bottle with the snake only get more liquor from sugarcane and continue using it.