Beware the cat stew, and not just because it's made of cat.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb0 u" d; R& h7 t) K
' s5 q. h$ E5 o2 F x Police in a town in southern China believe a local billionaire businessman may have been murdered over lunch by eating cat meat in a poisoned stew. The AP says the two men had a business spat and one invited the other to share lunch and talk business. Authorities believe the cat-meat stew was laced with toxins, killing billionaire Hunag Guang. His associate was taken into custody.
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Huang, deputy director of agriculture in Guangdong's Bajia township, is suspected of poisoning the hotpot with the herb Gelsemium elegans, according to a statement on the microblog of the investigating police.公仔箱論壇, i( C1 v) k$ O
: T, ~' O( v7 D7 M; N5.39.217.76Gelsemium elegans is a toxic plant indigenous to southeastern Asia well known among hill tribes as an effective means for committing suicide.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb/ v' A8 m2 k( P
Eating just a few leaves can cause convulsions and prove fatal.
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Yet despite containing poisonous alkaloids, it is also still used in Chinese medicine to treat skin ulcers and increasingly being used in the mainstream.
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: M4 J* R7 R3 K; F- o公仔箱論壇In the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。0 C$ T0 \8 S6 ]- l/ [0 ~
It has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.
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0 i, b2 K; h" O# \, v公仔箱論壇The herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.
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9 _. d \6 C: `5 i Cat meat is a Cantonese delicacy, much to the growing dismay of animal rights advocates in China. In recent years, animal lovers have blocked trucks loaded with thousands of cats bound for Guangdon |
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