The Weird Ingredients of Chinese Tonic Wine

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Although I am an ethnic Chinese, I know nothing about traditional Chinese medicine. When I saw a bottle of Chinese tonic  wine on the shelf of  the local supermarket, and it cost only S$9.00, I bought it since the usual Gin, Whiskey, Brandy etc was beyond my budget.On arriving home, I poured my myself a tiny cup of the 36% alcohol content wine for tasting. It was too bitter and the smell of herbs and what other things I-know-not was very strong. Nevertheless I shall bravely sip it once in a while for the label said that it was good for treatment of "Nutritious and strengthening waist, promoting the brain and recovering memory and untimely senility .."

I Googled and translated the ingredients and was amused:
The name Tzepao Sanpien Jiu means: 3-Penis Wine. The ingredients are:
Penis cervi (Deer penis)
Penis otariae (Seal Penis)
Penis et testis canidae (Dog penis and testicles)
Radix Ginseng (Ginseng root)
Comn cervi pantotrichum (Deer antler)
Radix Astralagi" Milkvetch root)
Radix Angelica Sinensis ( Dong Quai or Wild Celery)

It seems there are even more potent versions viz 5-penis wine. And the recipe is patented. See the link: https://patents.google.com/patent/CN1113784A/en 
Here is the Abstract of the recipe for 5-penis tonic wine as in the patent application:

Abstract
The present invention relates to a preparation method of Wubian Zhuangyang Jiu ( a tonic wine for strengthening yang). Said invention consists of male ox penis, male sheep penis, male horse penis, penis canitis and penis cervi and sea horse, pilose antler, ginseng, curculigo rhizome, epimedium, actinolite, cynomorium, eucommia bark, fleece-flower root, wolfberry fruit, dodder seed, prepared rehmannia root, black bean, Chinese-date, Chinese angelica root, dipsacus root, eugenia pimenta and prepared aconite root. The above-mentioned medicinal materials are pulverized into coarse powder, and bagged, and then the bagged powder is soaked in wine base which can be fermented grain beverage or yellow wine, and then they are passed through such processes of press-filtering to remove residue, clearing and aseptic packaging, so that the invented product can be made up.






 

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