With a history of more than 700 years, Chen's snakebite therapy is a traditional folk medicine in Yongjia County, Wenzhou. It was listed as a representative item of Zhejiang Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2023. In this video, foreign anchor Bingwa leads us to reveal the secrets of Chen's snakebite therapy.

Chen Yijiao created Chen's snakebite therapy at the end of the Qing Dynasty. In view of the scarcity of herbs and the high incidence of snake bites in Yongjia, he took local herbs as materials and revised the snake medicine formula that had accumulated the experience of 11 generations of ancestors. Thereafter, his son Chen Shaojin and grandson Chen Mingjian, have been practising and improving the new snake medicine formula, finally achieving greater therapeutic effects.

In 1985, Chen Enliang, son of Chen Mingjian, founded the Yongjia County Snake Research Institute to promote this snakebite therapy by organizing training and issuing papers. Subsequently, Chen Junbiao, son of Chen Enliang, took over the baton and set up Yongjia Snakebite Speciality Clinic in 2009. The therapy has drawn the attention of patients from all over our country with its good efficacy, short treatment course and low cost. To this day, more than 30,000 patients have been successfully treated.

Currently, Chen Junbiao is planning to establish a Snake Culture Museum, through which he hopes to popularize the knowledge of snakes and Chen's snakebite therapy, so that more people bitten by snakes could get timely treatment.