Plant Papaver somniferum (Papaveraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Opium Poppy; Poppyseed Poppy

How this plant is used

Food

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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
NARCEINE	6	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCEINE-IMIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCEINONE	0	Fruit	not available	31.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCERINE	0	Fruit	not available	20.0	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
NARCOTALINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
NARCOTINE	6	Fruit	not available	200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCOTINE	6	Gum	not available	62500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCOTINE	6	Latex Exudate	10000.0	125000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCOTINE	6	Plant	not available	14.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCOTINE	6	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	60000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCOTINE	6	Seed	0.8	2300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCOTINE	6	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCOTOLINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCOTOLINE	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCOTOLINE	0	Plant	not available	167.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCOTOLINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOPINE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOPINE	2	Latex Exudate	not available	50.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOPINE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	9.2	11.0	-0.95	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antithyroid	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antithyrotoxic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitinnitic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antitorticollic	1	Martindale's 29th
AntiTourette's	1	Martindale's 28th
Antitrachomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitriglyceride	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antitrypanosomic	2	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antitubercular	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	13	Simon, P.W. Carrots and Other Horticultural Crops as a Source of Provitamin A Carotenes. HortScience, 25(12): 1495, 1990.
Antitumor (brain)	1	Werbach & Murray, 1994.
Antitumor (Breast)	2	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Antitumor (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (CNS)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	4	Duke, 1992 *