NARCISSUS.
Narcissus poeticus, Linn.
[Referred to this species by the original, but both
the white and yellow Narcissus (N. poeticus and N. pseudonarcissus) are
quite commonly cultivated in gardens; the yellow has been more used in
domestic medicine.]
Natural order
, Amaryllidaceæ.
Preparation
, Tincture of the bulbs.
Authorities.
Pfan, Oest. Woch., 1844
(Frank’s Mag., 1, 784), a man and his wife ate a salad of Narcissus and
onion bulbs (four Narcissus bulbs) from the garden.►
Stupefaction. ►
Nausea, constant tormina, and burning pain in the stomach (after a
quarter of an hour). ► The woman was
relieved by repeated vomiting after administration of warm water, and
also by the copious watery alvine evacuations which followed, attended
by dreadful griping and cutting pain in the bowels. ► Symptoms of gastro-enteritis (second
day), (in the man). ► Small and
tremulous pulse for the whole night (in the man). ►
Trembling of the limbs (after a quarter of an hour). ► Obtuseness of the senses (after a quarter
of an hour). ► Fainting (after a
quarter of an hour). ► Coldness of
the extremities. [10.] ► Cold sweat (after a quarter of an hour).® 2000
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