"The tea leaves were provided in a plastic bag," which was not labeled, according to Aragon.Īconite, also known as monkshood, helmet flower and wolfsbane, is used in Asian herbal medicines. The teas had several ingredients, and the ingredients that were common to both tea mixtures are currently being tested. The two patients each purchased different blends of medicinal teas that were put together for them at the shop. Wrong family notified after man dies at SF hospital Tomas Aragon, health officer for the city and county of San Francisco. “Both patients developed symptoms about an hour after consuming the tea,” said Dr. The tea leaves bought at Sun Wing Wo Trading Company, at 1105 Grant Avenue, contained the plant-based toxin Aconite, a lethal poison, the San Francisco Department of Public Health said. The woman remained critically ill and died in the hospital on March 18. The man recovered and was released from the hospital on March 12.
"Each quickly developed weakness, and then life-threatening abnormal heart rhythms, requiring resuscitation and intensive hospital care," San Francisco Department of Public Health officials said. Yu-Ping Xie, a 56-year-old San Francisco resident, died Saturday at a hospital where she had been since February after drinking the tea, Bay City News reported. Two San Francisco residents - a man in his 50s last month and a woman in her 30s this month - fell critically ill and were hospitalized after consuming herbal tea from the same Chinatown herbalist in San Francisco. A woman who fell sick after drinking poisonous herbal tea from a store in San Francisco's Chinatown has died.
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