Suspect Bai Mingsheng, prescribed 32 sets of homemade medicines for Zhang Jialing, a girl in Ulanqab City who suffered from psoriasis, an inflammatory skin disease characterized by recurring red patches, in February, the girl's father Zhang Peijun said.

After taking all the medicines, Zhang fell into shock and was sent to a local hospital for emergency treatment on March 23, but she died the next day from drug poisoning, Zhang's father said.

Bai admitted that the medicine contained the poisonous drug hydrargyrum. An examination of Zhang's body confirmed that she died of chronic poisoning from the hydrargyrum.

via People's Daily Online