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A woman died after drinking poisoned herbal tea, which she had bought from the Sun Wing Wo Trading Company.

The toxic herbal tea had been bought in at a store in San Francisco's Chinatown. The health officials are requesting consumers who bought the Sun Wing Wo Trading Company tea to dispose it.

The San Francisco Department of Public Health official announced the death of the woman and also released a report on her death. The victim that passed away was named Yu-Ping Xie and she was in her 50's. The reports say that she became very ill when she consumed the tea in February. 

A few minutes after drinking her tea, Xie reportedly started feeling weak and also started having life-threatening heart rhythms that were very abnormal. The symptom made the woman require resuscitation and emergency medical services, so as to stabilize her.

After being resuscitated, she was hospitalized but she died while receiving treatment, according to the officials from the Department of Public Health.

In another isolated occurrence, a male consumer became very ill after ingesting a tea mixture, which was also purchased from the same herbalist in Chinatown. Fortunately, the health officials stated that the man was able to recover from the symptoms caused by the tea, the CNN reported.

Meanwhile, a lab test conducted on the ill-fated herbal tea revealed the presence of aconite, which is a plant-based toxin. The traces of aconite were found in all the ill patients and also in the tea samples taken from the Sun Wing Company. The product was immediately removed from store shelves and are continuing to trace the origin of the poison.

The Department of Public Health made an official statement and asked those who bought the tea from the location not to ingest it and get rid of it immediately. The further stated that aconite is a toxin that mainly attacks the heart and can lead to death, the Fox News reported.