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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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Police say Huang and Long had economic disputes.
( d3 h* {5 O/ E. m* u公仔箱論壇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.
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# B1 K- c& u$ f9 ZGelsemium elegans is a toxic plant indigenous to southeastern Asia well known among hill tribes as an effective means for committing suicide.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。5 K8 X4 J5 F2 @% ^
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., `9 x6 f( G0 n, C
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In the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb, V4 Z% r% v: x& i0 c. B
It has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.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。: D7 O* q0 r# y9 D) s( o4 N8 a
$ Q5 X, x5 F' l5 ^5.39.217.76The herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.
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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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