Posted on 03/21/2017 4:44:08 AM PDT by simpson96
A woman is dead after drinking tea containing a lethal poison that she unwittingly bought from an herbalist in San Francisco’s Chinatown, public health officials announced Monday.
The woman, whose identity was not released, became sick within an hour after sipping tea in February, according to Rachael Kagan, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. The woman, who was in her 50s, immediately developed weakness and abnormal heart rhythms, which required resuscitation. The San Francisco resident was hospitalized for weeks. She died Saturday, Kagan said.
A man in his 30s, who also drank the tea, suffered the same health ailments. He became critically ill and was hospitalized. The San Francisco resident has since recovered and was released on March 12, she said.
According to the health department, the patients purchased tea leaves at Sun Wing Wo Trading Company in Chinatown. They bought different blends of medicinal teas with several ingredients. The teas were mixed at the shop, health officials said.
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Sum Ting Wong, the tea specialist, was not available for comment.
It was in the tea leaves.....
“Sun Wing Wo”
Are you sure that’s not “Sum Wing Wong”?
“Sun Wing Wo”
Are you sure that’s not “Sum Wing Wong”?
I think this might be the same story where the tea was found to contain aconite which has been used as a poison since ancient times. Not a nice way to go.
Ancient Chinese Secret?
And people are crying that comes are unsafe.
Same people. The original article was that people were in the hospital.
Huh?
"And what about the mushrooms you can't identify for certain? Is there any simple test that will insure they're safe?"
"None whatever. ... Here in Pennsylvania -- but not in other places -- it would almost work to say that if a green plant tastes good, it is good. But even that rule won't work with mushrooms. It's been reported by people -- just before they died -- that the Amanitas vera tastes very good."
http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/euell-gibbons-zmaz72mjztak
Do you mean combs?
Winston Churchill and Lady Astor, yer doin’ it wrong...
No one ever said...Socrates, hemlock is poison.
Was the toxin identified? An amatoxin could be the culprit.
Apparently our Death Cap looks like the Straw Mushroom of Asia.
Batteries and Walmart - Used to live by one and used their automotive dept. Bought a new battery from them and it crapped out everyyear like clockwork for 7 years. Went back and got the same model new battery every time - no charge. It got too unreliable to continue but I never ran over anyone in the parking lot because of it.
It happened because his assistant George Bailey wished he had never been born.....
I thought it had something to do with the Monkshood plant, but I could be wrong.
Cokes*! My mistake. My signal isn’t the greatest this morning and I hate autocorrect
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