Beware the cat stew, and not just because it's made of cat.5.39.217.768 q% o) p8 U9 S; R$ }# ~2 y1 M
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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.公仔箱論壇0 H" p1 d0 ?! r# m+ p
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.
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/ A% S, [( e; [, m: I: etvb now,tvbnow,bttvbGelsemium elegans is a toxic plant indigenous to southeastern Asia well known among hill tribes as an effective means for committing suicide.
' o4 ` e4 i' d. v X. v1 @Eating just a few leaves can cause convulsions and prove fatal.
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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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$ G: L. V, E! X% ]5.39.217.76In the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.
- r' j) V9 E, V, p2 L* J& S% nIt has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.公仔箱論壇9 X4 v0 i3 T( c; T/ c% [) L9 ?
: s5 ?4 k0 V9 s# F+ Z* n公仔箱論壇The herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.
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& h+ p$ {, n6 y6 _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。 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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