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Poppy millet

English name

Wind flower

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Basic information

country of origin

Poppy originated in Asia Minor, India and Iran. There is a small amount of cultivation in parts of China.

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Poppy is a biennial herb of Papaveraceae. The whole plant is pink green, and the leaves and stems are oval; Summer flowers, solitary, big and gorgeous, red, purple and white, open upward. Flowers fall early, bear spherical capsules and have tiny and numerous seeds. Very poisonous

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chemical composition

The poppy shell contains a small amount of morphine, codeine, thebaine, narcotine, narcotrine and papaverine. In addition, it contains about 2.4% polysaccharide, lactose 10%, arabinose 6%, xylose 6%, rhamnose 4%, galacturonic acid 60%, 4-0- methylglucuronic acid 4%, and trace fucose and 2-0- methylfucose can be obtained by hydrolysis. 2-0- methyl xylose (2-0- methyl xylose) and glucuronic acid (G- dururonic acid), Sedum heptonose, D- mannose heptonose, D- glyceryl -D- mannose ketose (D- glyceryl -D).

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Pharmacology and toxicology

Excessive consumption can easily lead to addiction.

Chinese medicine uses poppy shell as medicine, and the prescription is also called "imperial rice husk" or "poppy shell". Harvest after "cutting tobacco" in summer, remove pedicels and seeds, dry in the sun, and fry with vinegar or honey for later use. Seeds contain 50% oil and can be used to extract oil.

Papaver shell tastes sour and toxic, and contains more than 30 alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, narcotine and papaverine. It is an analgesic, antitussive and antidiarrheal drug, which is used for chronic cough due to lung deficiency, various pains in chest and abdomen and chronic diarrhea. It is also used for nocturnal emission and nocturnal emission caused by kidney deficiency.

There is milk in poppy fruit, which is "opium" after being cut dry. Containing 10% morphine and other alkaloids, it can relieve the spasm of smooth muscle, especially vascular smooth muscle, and inhibit myocardium, and is mainly used for angina pectoris, arterial embolism and other diseases. However, taking it for a long time is easy to be addicted and chronically poisoned, which is seriously harmful to the body, and it has become the "opium ghost" that people often say. If it is serious, it will die of breathing difficulties. Therefore, poppy cultivation is strictly controlled in China, and it is prohibited except for medical research.

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Poppy language

Comfort, death and love White poppy represents forgetting and first love.

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