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 A panicked woman was rushed to hospital after eating a poisonous plant she thought was a harmless aloe vera leaf on an internet live stream. 
 
 The 26-year-old Chinese woman, surnamed Zhang, broadcast her unusual food fetish to several hundred viewers and even bought two massive green leaves for the performance. 
 
 She claimed the leaves were aloe verab - and that there was no better way to reap the plant's benefits than by chowing down on the thick, fresh leaves. 
 
 But her "Aloe Vera Feast" - as her channel's stream was title - turned very bad, very fast as she actually ate the leaves of a century plant - which is also called the agave Americana. 
 
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 The poison desert plant from the Americas, which resembles aloe vera, is sold in China as an ornament, and its likeness to aloe vera is thought to have fooled the woman. 
 
 In footage of the live broadcast, Zhang can be heard saying: "This is great. Yum." 
 
 But viewers sensed something was wrong when she added: "Oh, that's bitter. That is really bitter." 
 
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 Zhang, who is still recovering in hospital, later claimed her mouth went "numb" and she felt like her throat was "on fire". 
 
 She also "lost her voice" after three bites of the agave Americana and immediately took herself to hospital, abandoning the live stream entirely. 
 
 Doctors found that she had also been suffering from severe rashes and blisters, and later pumped her stomach to remove the harmful substances from her body. 

 One woman has managed to win internet fame, though not exactly in the way that she had hoped after being forced to abruptly end her live stream and rush herself to the hospital after discovering that the plant she was eating was not what she thought it was. 
 
 To prepare for her live stream, the 26-year-old woman surnamed Zhang had bought two waxy green leaves that she thought were aloe vera, a plant purported to have various health benefits when eaten raw. 
 
 After taking her first bite, Zhang exclaims, "This is great!" However, upon taking her second bite, she begins to realize that something is terribly wrong. "Oh, that tastes bitter. Really bitter," she says to the camera. 
 
 It turns out that what Zhang was chomping down on was not aloe vera, but Agave Americana (American aloe), a poisonous plant from Mexico that is very not edible. Zhang said that just one bite made her mouth go numb and her throat feel like it was on fire. 
 
 At the hospital, doctors found that Zhang had broken out into rashes and blisters and were forced to pump her stomach to remove parts of the poisonous plant and save her life. She is reported to be in stable condition. 
 
 [Images via Oriental Daily / h/t Asia One]
– A Chinese woman was live-streaming herself eating what she thought was aloe vera (said to have health benefits when eaten raw) when she abruptly realized something was very wrong. It turns out the 26-year-old, named in the media only as Zhang, was actually eating Agave Americana or "American aloe," a poisonous plant from Mexico, Shanghaiist reports. Though video of the woman shows her initially proclaiming the first bite as "great," Zhang quickly changed her tune, proclaiming the plant "really bitter." She later said her mouth went numb and her throat started burning, the Mirror reports. She ended up rushing herself to the hospital, having broken out in rashes and blisters, and doctors reportedly had to pump her stomach to save her life.