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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Papaver somniferum

Common Name
Poppy,Opium; O Fu Jung; Kheshkhash Abu Al Noum; Opium; O Fang; Yu Mi; Chandu; Hashas; Madat; Adormidero; Ya P'Ien; Poppy; Opium Poppy; Adormidera; O P'Ien; Tengkoh; Gelinjik

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Uses for this plant.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Dysmenorrhea China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Emollient Elsewhere *
Emollient Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Enteritis China Keys, J.D. 1976. Chinese Herbs. Charles E. Tuttle Co., Tokyo.
Enterorrhagia China Keys, J.D. 1976. Chinese Herbs. Charles E. Tuttle Co., Tokyo.
Expectorant Elsewhere *
Expectorant Elsewhere *
Fever India(Unani) *
Fever Japan(Okinawa) *
Fever Malaya *
Fever China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Flux China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Fumitory Elsewhere *
Fumitory China Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Hemicrania India(Unani) *
Hemostat India(Unani) *
Hypertension Greece *
Hypnotic Elsewhere *
Hypnotic India(Unani) *
Hypnotic Europe Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.