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# ^ s' Y; l$ u0 Q+ r' n 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.- @+ S- b9 e: E: b ~- `
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Gelsemium elegans is a toxic plant indigenous to southeastern Asia well known among hill tribes as an effective means for committing suicide.
9 e: n" K& Z+ ~Eating just a few leaves can cause convulsions and prove fatal.公仔箱論壇7 R" E' v6 }& U: f' o L
& [, o& V# j, D8 g. y9 V公仔箱論壇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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. B, q$ ?2 E+ w. s' k* Y N+ C! U公仔箱論壇In the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.
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2 Y9 U+ J& j" G1 \+ oTVBNOW 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。The herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.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。7 p: H% T& J8 w0 {
) z* d* u! ~: nTVBNOW 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。 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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