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Shuchuu (酒虫, "Sake Bug") are creatures from Chinese mythology that live within a person's body that generates a desire to drink alchohol. Humans who ingest it are unable to become intoxicated. It is said to turn water into alcohol.
It was written about in a Chinese novel and later adapted by Akutagawa Ryuunosuke's "The Wine Worm".
Shuchuu in Touhou
According to Suika Ibuki, shuchuu are something like a companion to the Oni. Eirin Yagokoro mentions that shuchuu are the crystillization of the oni's technology.