Beware the cat stew, and not just because it's made of cat.
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( p M0 P( k$ ~7 I9 B 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.
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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.
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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.公仔箱論壇3 E5 e8 `: ~5 w0 |" V5 W4 Z
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In the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.
6 L- Y. x9 J( t1 ]. y公仔箱論壇It has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.
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2 z8 E6 u; o% W; ~9 i" JThe herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.
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1 b, g; l8 l, S- p: X% G' g4 q公仔箱論壇 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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