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Plant Papaver bracteatum (Papaveraceae)

Common Names
Great Scarlet Poppy
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(-)-NUCIFERINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
0-METHYLCORYPALLINE 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
14BETA-HYDROXYCODEINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
14BETA-HYDROXYCODEINONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ACETYLORNITHINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE 3 Seed 7000.0 8650.0 -0.32 Duke, 1992 *
ALPIGENINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE 14 Seed 18300.0 21650.0 -0.13 Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Seed 17000.0 20350.0 -0.20 Duke, 1992 *
BRACTAMINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BRACTAVINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BRACTEINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BRACTEOLINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE 14 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COPTISINE 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CORYPALLINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE 2 Seed 4150.0 4950.0 1.25 Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Seed 450000.0 480000.0 1.13 Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Seed 37600.0 43200.0 0.06 Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE 12 Seed 7750.0 9350.0 -0.23 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hypercholesterolemic 1 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypertensive 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypnotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypoammonemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic 3 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypotensive 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive? 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Insectifuge 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Irritant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Lipotropic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Lubricant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Metastatic 1 Science News, 146: 421.
Monoamine-Precursor 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Myocontractant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Narcotic 3 Merck 11th Edition
Nematicide 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neuroexcitant 1 Martindale's 28th