Beware the cat stew, and not just because it's made of cat.4 \0 I) Y7 ? _# f0 V
% o6 o3 v: A4 I* D5 @0 v 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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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.5.39.217.760 h4 W/ f$ ~+ w+ j/ x2 r, ^9 {) G% F- _
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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.
# T( N3 d4 x A公仔箱論壇Eating just a few leaves can cause convulsions and prove fatal.0 H- V, l6 T; u( @5 D$ J
$ V+ M+ i/ H& W5 w+ q" d0 P# iYet despite containing poisonous alkaloids, it is also still used in Chinese medicine to treat skin ulcers and increasingly being used in the mainstream.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb$ I: C" @$ a! j b! S: Z
" a2 v5 |6 v& P+ iIn the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.
# N+ y& }, G. i* B. gIt 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.5.39.217.76/ J+ o8 q" z% \' A+ G2 W/ p5 ~
! g. Z3 L8 _2 M3 L! i 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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