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Opium Poppy

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Tincture of Opium, or Laudanum

3 oz of Opiumequal parts distilled water and alcohol

Decoction of Poppy

bruise fresh capsules of poppyand soak in distilled waterfor external use on painful areas.

 

  Papaver somniferum
(LINN) N.O. Papaveraceae

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Contra-Indications
By prescription only. If swallowed, stomach must be pumped and washed with potassium permanganate + the administration of nitrites and small doses of atropine hypodermically to maintain cardiac action. Also strychnine used hypodermically and artificial respiration .To prevent coma apply caffeine and stimulant enemata.






 
Opium Poppy Properties
       

Names

History

Constituents

Uses
Opium poppy
Poppies were first cultivated
At least 25 alkaloids comprising:
hypnotic
Mawseed
in Britain in the 17th c.
morphine (0.1 -0.3 %)
sedative
White Poppy
by Mr. John Ball, of
codeine
narcotic
or, (var),
Williton.
papaverine
pain relief
Papaver Album
Cultivation experiments
narcotine
relief of diarrhoea
 
also in France and Germany
meconic acid (5% with morphine)
pain killer
 
British Pharmacopoeia states
thebaine
infusion from powdered
 
that opium used officially
narceine.
capsule once used for
 
must come from poppies
lrhoeadine
sprains and bruises
 
grown in Asia Minor
(latex)
expectorant
 
11th c. : An Arabic physician,
25% alkaloid content
diaphoretic
 
Mesue, made a cough
2% morphine
syrup of poppy
 
treatment known as
(Oil)
veterinary for pain
 
Syrupus de Meconio Mesuae
(to 60%)
and spasm
 
the name somniferum
lecithin
nb: opium and morphine
 
means sleep - inducing
mucilage
are not clamative or hypnotic
 
red, purple or white flowers
sugar
for animals
 
 
wax
 
 
 
calcium and magnesium salts
 
 
 
sulphuric acid from its ash
 
 
 
starch
 
 
 
tannin
 
 
 
oxalic acid
 
 
 
fat
 

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