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.公仔箱論壇8 K4 j _3 s& j& g8 D% p/ o
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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! E- O5 T: \5 A: k1 p2 P0 }
) \! j* @; v6 [/ [9 ]+ U# ]Gelsemium elegans is a toxic plant indigenous to southeastern Asia well known among hill tribes as an effective means for committing suicide.
/ o7 m) L7 F4 e% yEating just a few leaves can cause convulsions and prove fatal.! Z. r. F! ]1 f! 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.5 I, q" S/ S" [
, w. p) C4 d0 n" M, ~2 `2 N% w5.39.217.76In the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.
0 Q: \' Y d) k$ Ftvb now,tvbnow,bttvbIt has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.
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The herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.
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; B% `( s* S0 Y) l. c: itvb 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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