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.
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( ~. m! Z6 J4 |1 i! wtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbHuang, 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.% L6 M$ M. V7 X1 ?7 g3 L; V- v. Y
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n+ j4 p {$ LEating 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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In the 18th century it was administered as an analgesic and recent pharmacological studies have supported that use.公仔箱論壇2 S8 ]7 V2 G4 K, A# z5 S- z' T0 S w
It has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.公仔箱論壇$ @- c. l9 m4 Q1 d
7 R) p4 j) a7 O/ v7 fThe herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.
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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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