Beware the cat stew, and not just because it's made of cat.公仔箱論壇' s* n5 a* U1 I5 H
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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.
$ q5 o! _$ o4 f% [3 Z5.39.217.76Huang, 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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* k9 _$ b! ^* v/ w4 m5.39.217.76Gelsemium 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。1 e$ N0 Y( _- O( U: u- O3 r) s
Eating just a few leaves can cause convulsions and prove fatal.5.39.217.76# v9 F2 u7 e$ Y3 }
$ m+ C7 B" u1 e- X& c2 _6 g0 _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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+ t& }' h# T7 N. Jtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbIn the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb* n8 e) r1 {9 c8 L7 z5 s9 D
It has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.
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+ M" ?4 W! Y y' P: Q公仔箱論壇The herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.
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, w0 F, y# N- K0 v/ t j: ]1 gTVBNOW 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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