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Plant Papaver somniferum (Papaveraceae)

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
PAPAVERALDINE 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PAPAVERALDINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAPAVERAMINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAPAVERINE 26 Fruit 20.0 820.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PAPAVERINE 26 Gum not available 7500.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PAPAVERINE 26 Latex Exudate 5000.0 10000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PAPAVERINE 26 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PAPAVERINE 26 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available 4000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PAPAVERINE 26 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PAPAVERINE 26 Seed 0.2 670.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PAPAVERINE 26 Tissue Culture not available 45.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PAPAVERRUBINE-C 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PAPAVERRUBINE-D 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PAPAVERRUBINE-D 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PAPAVERUBINES 0 Plant not available not available not available Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PECTIN 24 Latex Exudate not available not available not available ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PENTACOSAN-7-ONE 0 Fruit not available 28.5 not available Duke, 1992 *
PENTOSANS 0 Seed 30000.0 36000.0 -0.89 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PEROXIDASE 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Seed 8820.0 9461.0 -0.25 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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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 *