A middle-aged couple in Hangzhou mistakenly fried daffodil leaves as garlic seedlings and were poisoned and hospitalized. The Paper learned from Hangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine on February 19 that the patient was out of danger after vomiting and rehydration.
According to the doctor, the whole plant of daffodils is poisonous, and there are cases of edible daffodils poisoning during the Spring Festival every year, because the unflowered daffodils are similar to garlic seedlings, and they are in a familiar environment at home, people's vigilance is greatly reduced, and there may be a "daffodils as a dish" thing.
Mrs. Yue and her husband work in the same company, and the two returned to Hangzhou from their hometown on the evening of the 16th, and went to work the next day, without preparing daily necessities for the new year. At noon on the 17th, when the couple came home, there were no ingredients in the refrigerator, and Mrs. Yue, who usually has the habit of growing vegetables casually, found that the "garlic sprouts" on the windowsill were green, so she picked them and made noodles. After two bites, her husband felt that the taste was a little strange, and Mrs. Yue thought that the sauce used this time was different, so she didn't care. After eating, the stomachs of the two began to "turn over the river and the sea", followed by nausea and vomiting. Mrs. Yue suddenly realized that it might be a problem with the "garlic sprouts", and when she looked closely, it was obviously a narcissus that had not bloomed, because it was planted on the windowsill with other vegetables, and it was separated by the Spring Festival holiday, so she didn't pay attention to it for a while. The two were helped to the emergency department of the Wulin branch of Hangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and were diagnosed with daffodil poisoning by mistake.
It is understood that narcissus is a perennial herbaceous flower of the Lycoris family, and the toxins mainly come from the juice in the bulb, which contains a variety of toxic substances such as lycorine, Latin toxin, pseudolycornicine, lycoris len pine, lycoris, etc., which can cause poisoning symptoms when eaten or used externally, such as digestive tract reactions, redness and swelling.
The doctor reminded that with a little discrimination, there are still many differences between narcissus and garlic leaves. The leaves of narcissus are slightly thicker and relatively shorter, and the leaves of garlic are thinner; The rhizome of narcissus is conical or ovate, more like an onion, and the bulb of garlic is a garlic clove. The best difference is the smell, pinching garlic leaves with your fingernails or opening garlic cloves will have a distinctly spicy taste, while narcissus does not.
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