Beware the cat stew, and not just because it's made of cat.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb" p; f7 f3 H* m: f$ U- Y
( Y+ z8 B8 i# g: Y0 }& 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。 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.5.39.217.762 T J: N! G- W4 b
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.5.39.217.76/ G% ^( G" j- \
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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.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。% x X! C5 ?9 u! j
Eating just a few leaves can cause convulsions and prove fatal.8 D# u( n8 B' C# b0 B* _
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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./ T+ w- m5 S& d6 S" z
% M1 h0 X& G1 w+ A; z3 n% LIn the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.5.39.217.766 b$ j/ M+ Q) L
It has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.
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$ i2 ?# s: @& w& t/ WThe herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.公仔箱論壇5 j3 z, c" F4 y8 B3 k3 m! O P# y6 U
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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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