Beware the cat stew, and not just because it's made of cat.
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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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9 ~7 B3 h& B% _& \! ptvb now,tvbnow,bttvbPolice say Huang and Long had economic disputes.
- m6 C! u* M. k- p P* ^5.39.217.76Huang, 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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Gelsemium elegans is a toxic plant indigenous to southeastern Asia well known among hill tribes as an effective means for committing suicide.5.39.217.76! h5 ?! o( k8 t3 n% W
Eating just a few leaves can cause convulsions and prove fatal.
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" |: U+ B" z- H% X7 J3 {% @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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! s4 D; ?: s n9 o- mIn the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.5.39.217.76* w3 r D$ e' D' T3 \
It has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.5.39.217.76( R8 n! V$ r4 @; E1 `: w
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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。1 w6 Y, t6 F$ `' o
: E3 h a& C7 z" z5.39.217.76 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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