NARCISSUS PSEUDONARCISSUS
Daffodil NARCISSUS)
Symptoms of nausea observed by way of violent vomiting and diarrhoea.
Daffodil bulbs incorporate an alkaloid the motion of which, in accordance to authorities, varies as to whether or not the alkaloid is extracted from the flowering bulb or from the bulb after flowering. Thus in the former case the alkaloid produces dryness of the mouth, assessments cutaneous secretions, dilates the student of the eye, quickens the pulse, and slows and weakens the coronary heart contractions. On the different hand, the alkaloid from the bulbs after flowering produces copious salivation, will increase cutaneous secretion, contracts the student of the eye, produces moderate rest of the pulse, and moderate faintness and nausea.–The Lancet.
A treatment for cough and bronchitis. Continuous cough, Coryza; frontal headache. Convulsive stage of whooping-cough.
Skin.–Erythema of a papular, vesicular and pustular type, aggravation in moist weather.
Dose.–First attenuation.
