"Richard Kunin visited San Francisco’s Chinatown to buy such snake oil and analyze it. According to his 1989 analysis published in the Western Journal of Medicine, Chinese water-snake oil contains 20 percent eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), one of the two types of omega-3 fatty acids most readily used by our bodies. Salmon, one of the most popular food sources of omega-3s, contains a maximum of 18 percent EPA, lower than that of snake oil."
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Scientific American, in Lisa Hix How Snake Oil Got a Bad Rap (Hint: It Wasn't The Snakes' Fault), Collectors Weekly, 20 May 2011.
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