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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
CODEINE 14 Gum not available 35000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE 14 Hypocotyl not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE 14 Inflorescence not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE 14 Latex Exudate 5000.0 40000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE 14 Leaf 60.0 430.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE 14 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE 14 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available 34700.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE 14 Root 100.0 200.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE 14 Seed 0.1 440.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE 14 Shoot not available 14.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE 14 Stem not available 100.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE 14 Tissue Culture 34.0 200.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE-N-OXIDE 0 Fruit not available 50.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE-N-OXIDE 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CODEINONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
COPPER 12 Seed 16.0 23.0 0.74 Duke, 1992 *
COPTISINE 3 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COPTISINE 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COPTISINE 3 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COPTISINE 3 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Estrogenic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Euphoric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor 10 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 12 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Gastrocontractant 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Gastroprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gastrosedative 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Glaucomagenic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Glutathionigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Goitrogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide 2 Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide 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.
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic 1 Duke, 1992 *