date:Oct 18, 2018
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Usually, we eat dried daylily. But there are many places, especially the origin of daylily, some people like fresh, like to eat fresh daylily. However, fresh is not necessarily good and safe. This is because there is a toxin in the daylily, which may cause food poisoning after eating.
Alkaloid hiding in daylily
Both flowers and roots of daylily contain a poisonous alkaloid, which is usually thought to be colchicine.
Colchicine, a substance that many people are familiar , can inhibit cell