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Last weekend, 7 people were taken to the hospital after having dinner together, violating the quarantine rules for banning private gatherings with more than 5 people in Yeongdong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do. I ate the herbs from the mountain in a small amount, but it turned out that it was a poisonous herb used to make medicines in the past.
Reporter Park Eon of CJB reported.
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is a village in Sangchon-myeon, Yeongdong-gun.
Around the evening of the 17th, 7 people, including A, a man in her 50s, who lived here after dinner together, complained of sudden abdominal pain and were urgently taken to the hospital.
One of these groups had been collecting wild vegetables, but they didn't know that they were poisonous, and they boiled them in hot water and got sick.
[Yeosaeng Yoon/Ijang, Dunjeon-ri, Sangchon-myeon, Yeongdong-gun, Chungbuk: I thought it was a medicinal herb, and I boiled it wrongly and ate it, but I know that it was a poisonous plant, so my tongue was paralyzed
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Choo is a plant that is highly toxic enough to be used in making past medicines.
By this time of year, it can be easily found in the surrounding hills, which are shady or with valleys.
In particular, because they are similar in appearance to the ground, the common people often take wild vegetables and bring them without their knowledge.
[Lim Jong-deok/Residents: People who know it aren't easy to pick it, but those who don't know can eat it by picking it together and blanching it together... .]
Experts called attention to the consumption of wild vegetables, saying that this is the time when deadly poisonous plants such as the rich and the Chun-oh grow.
[Woosung Choi/Doctor of Oriental Medicine: For these parts that you do not know about, you should ask a medicinal dealer or plant savvy people and take them only when absolutely necessary.] The
number of food poisoning patients caused by natural poisoning in the past 10 years is 135 nationwide. Of this, 30% was concentrated in the spring from March to May.