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Snake oil
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Snake oil might refer to:
- Genuine snake lipid in liquid (oil) form used in traditional herbal treatments, such as Chinese medicine
- Nutritional supplements
- Patent medicines, some of which were once marketed as "snake oil"
- Woo of any kind
- Somebody who has consumed too much snake oil for their own good is known as a Kool-Aid drinker.
- Essential oil
- Snake oil cryptography