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.& T3 W6 f" i% A: p) K
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Police say Huang and Long had economic disputes.公仔箱論壇4 ~3 C5 |/ w1 Q! k
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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. w6 z2 C& S* x1 H公仔箱論壇Gelsemium elegans is a toxic plant indigenous to southeastern Asia well known among hill tribes as an effective means for committing suicide.
( r3 k3 J" `3 L$ l% wEating just a few leaves can cause convulsions and prove fatal.
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7 A, N1 O7 Z0 X' _os.tvboxnow.comYet 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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In the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.公仔箱論壇) O2 U2 \+ b: X; C- d) r
It has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.; U1 m0 e% m( R9 _1 ?% Q, h1 X2 W6 M
% j; V8 Q2 h ptvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.
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' _' [( f7 A }4 [, C7 \+ u, p" q* Ytvb 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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