Traditional Chinese Medicine Kills Rats

(Shanghai, China) Ye Wenhu, a member of the Genetics Society of China and a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, has been awarded a patent for using a traditional Chinese medicine as a rat poison. Considered fragrant and attractive to rats, the main ingredient of the traditional Chinese medicine, tripterygium wilfordii, limits lactic dehydrogenase in the testicles, producing sterility.

It's not clear what human ailments are treated by the use of tripterygium wilfordii, but it seems that it should be stocked in many homes. Having one product that treats human maladies and kills rats has to be a money saver. The only problem would be where to store the medicine/rat killer. The medicine cabinet or the garage?