Poppy

Homeland of Poppies in Central Asia, India and Iran.

Poppies are herbaceous plants, life expectancy is 2 years. The whole body is greenish-green, the oval-shaped leaves are long, growing hulls, blooming in summer, m

Poppies
(Photo: kuleuven-kortrijk)

Read separately at the tops, big flowers beautiful, blooming upward, red, purple and white. Flowers quickly fall, squirrel squirrels, in many small seeds.

Oriental medicine uses fruit peels to make medicine, and the traditional medicine is written in the prescription as "the mole" or "the dead". After "taking plastic", summer will collect, discard seeds and long heads, dry, vinegar or soaked honey. Poppy seeds contain 50% oil, can be pressed into oil.

English poppies are average, acrid, poisonous, contain morphine, codeine, Narcotin, papaverin, . Approximately more than 30 alkaloids, have a pseudo-pain effect, reduce cough, stop diarrhea, treat long-term cough diseases , pain in the ribs, chest pain, abdominal pain, dysentery for a long time, also used for diatomic and sperm reflexology.

In the British quality of white plastic fruits, take out to dry into opium , in which contains 10% morphine, can eliminate the phenomenon of cramps and inhibition of myocardium, mainly used in arterial cardiomyopathy. But much use will be addictive, poisoning gradually seriously affects health, become "addicted", then suffocate death. Therefore, in addition to growing strictly managed medicinal plants, the state prohibits planting poppy trees.

White plastic in poppies dried into opium (Photo: awl)