An unannounced visit by a land media reporter found that there is an underground trade in poppy husk in several major Chinese herbal medicine distribution centers in China, with the buyers mostly being vendors or stores engaged in marinated deli food and snacks for breakfast. Some businessmen even revealed that a well-known restaurant brand in Beijing takes as much as half a ton of goods every month.
The surging news from the end of March to mid-May to investigate the unannounced visits to a number of places, found a large number of poppy shells through the underground black market into the lo-mei, snack market.
A Chinese herbalist with an entity company Liang Shan (a pseudonym) claims to have hundreds of kilograms of poppy husk in stock, and will supply a well-known restaurant brand and vendors doing marinated deli food every month, “to put it nicely is to sell Chinese medicine, to put it badly is drug trafficking, more risky than selling guns”.
Liang Shan said that the poppy husk in the hands of the old man from the rural secretly planted poppy acquisition, they also have a small amount of other Chinese herbs with a number of sets, absolutely better quality than smuggled goods from the “Golden Triangle of northern Myanmar” area, the local also he and another herbalists have goods.
Liang Shan explained that the impact of anti-drug, the original market per catty poppy husk is two or three hundred yuan (RMB, the same below), now up to six or seven hundred yuan per catty, and rising, belonging to the “priceless” things, his customers are almost all from acquaintances, generally restaurant business, to sell brine dishes, most customers buy poppy husk and can not The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
He also repeatedly mentioned that the Beijing branch of a well-known hot pot restaurant brand takes at least 500 kilograms of poppy husk from him each month and then distributes it to stores.
The report said that Liang Shan’s poppy husk business is only the tip of the iceberg, and that in addition to his city, similar phenomena are found in An Guo City in Hebei, Yuzhou City in Henan, and Zhang Shu City in Jiangxi and other Chinese herbal medicine distribution areas.
In the network, part of the network from Yunnan, Gansu sellers directly build the name with the words “poppy, big smoke, rice shells” QQ group to find buyers, inspection of goods for sale, there are sellers specializing in the preparation of dry spices containing poppy powder, and playing a variety of “secret system “The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.
Why do vendors want to add poppy powder? Mainly from businesses that add poppy shells (powder, seeds) to food can enhance the flavor and aroma, making diners addicted. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
There is also a QQ group in the advertisement says: “If you are in the snack business, if you are in the cooked food business, like spicy hot, barbecue, if you are not doing well, then you just have to join our seasoning, to ensure that your business is red hot.”
A seller in the WeChat also with his brother in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, Liangxi District, Xining Road, “Chaoyang food trading area” operating two dry spice store, specializing in business with “secret spices”. His brother said to the unannounced visit to the reporter, many do spicy hot, barbecue, lo-mei food business each time to take a few pounds of goods, generally they will be proportional and other spices mixed with, some businesses sell spicy hot, they will match the cooking spicy hot material; some businesses do lo-mei, they will match the material of the marinated food; if you want more, they can grind into poppy powder, the buyers themselves with, will not go by courier, will personally The company has been in the business of delivering goods.
The report said that the owner of a halogen restaurant in Hengyang, Hunan Province, claimed that when she set up her stall five years ago, the market had at least eight delicatessen business quite competitive, and then she used poppy husk, business exploded in three years, and currently operates three halogen stalls, “once to buy about five pounds of poppy husk, 600 yuan per pound, which can be used for three months”.
Poppy shells, morphine, codeine, poppy alkaloids such as alkaloids, although the content of smaller than opium, but long time to take the human liver, heart caused by chronic toxic effects.
Some studies say that the long-term use of soup containing poppy husk or its extracts, there will be chills, sweating, fatigue, yellow muscle, sleepy and other symptoms, and cause a person’s concentration and memory function decline, in serious cases may cause damage to the nervous system, digestive system, endocrine disorders, and even lead to respiratory arrest and death.
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