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Narcissus

Photo by misako
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Field Notes

Description:

It has been unseasonably warm in the San Francisco Bay area this year and my daffodils are already blooming! We finally got some welcomed rain today.

Habitat:

Urban house flower garden.

Notes:

In the traditional Japanese medicine of kampo, wounds were treated with narcissus root and wheat flour paste; the plant, however, does not appear in the modern kampo herb list. The Roman physician Aulus Cornelius Celsus listed narcissus root in De Medicina among medical herbs, described as emollient, erodent, and "powerful to disperse whatever has collected in any part of the body". In one scientific study, the ethanol extract of the bulbs was found effective in one mouse model of nociception, para-benzoquinone induced abdominal constriction, but not in another, the hot plate test.
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