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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Papaver somniferum (Papaveraceae)

Common Names
Opium Poppy; Poppyseed Poppy
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PHENYLALANINE-DECARBOXYLASE 0 Latex Exudate *
PHOSPHORIC-ACID 4 Latex Exudate ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 8290.0 9277.0 1.04 *
PHYTATE 0 Seed 21890.0 23290.0 1.38 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Seed 890.0 955.0 -0.39 *
PORPHYROXINE 0 Fruit *
POTASSIUM 14 Seed 5250.0 8179.0 -0.39 *
PROLINE 0 Seed 10620.0 11392.0 0.01 *
PROTEASE 0 Latex Exudate ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PROTEIN 0 Seed 175256.0 198532.0 -0.31 *
PROTOPINE 24 Fruit *
PROTOPINE 24 Tissue Culture *
PSEUDOMORPHINE 0 Plant Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PYRROLIDINE 1 Latex Exudate Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
QUERCETIN-3-GENTIOBIOSIDE 0 Flower *
R-RETICULINE 0 Latex Exudate *
R-RETICULINE 0 Leaf *
R-RETICULINE 0 Shoot *
R-RETICULINE 0 Sprout Seedling *
RETICULINE 10 Fruit *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antimanic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastalgic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanogenic 1 *
AntiMeniere's 1 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal 4 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimenorrhagic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 3 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Antimigraine 6 Martindale's 29th
Antimitotic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimitral-valve-prolapse 1 *
Antimorphinic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antimorphinistic 1 *
AntiMS 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimuscarinic 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antimutagenic 8 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimyalgic 1 *
Antimycotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antimyocarditic 1 *