Beware the cat stew, and not just because it's made of cat.
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' c" l. a: x( S7 |: vTVBNOW 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。 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.公仔箱論壇 _9 T3 z$ R. ]5 s
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.' V# o$ a% Y9 w9 b4 C% D9 w
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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.
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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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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。# o+ j8 R0 X, T
It has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.
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; U) }* ~. K m& HThe herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.5.39.217.76" E! s9 ?6 K3 b x* t
- ^4 n( ]4 U8 k1 \& B& }tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb 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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