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
DIHYDROPROTOPINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROSANGUINARINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROSANGUINARINE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DOPA-DECARBOXYLASE	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DOPAMINE	20	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DOPAMINE	20	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMULSIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ERYTHRITOL	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
FAT	0	Seed	400000.0	550000.0	1.50	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Seed	58080.0	71818.0	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
FIXED-OIL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FUMARASE	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GADOLEIC-ACID	0	Seed	400.0	429.0	-0.67	Duke, 1992 *
GLAUDINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMATE-OXALOACETATE-TRANSAMINASE	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMATE-PYRUVATE-TRANSAMINASE	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Seed	45410.0	48713.0	0.30	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Seed	11230.0	12047.0	0.16	Duke, 1992 *
GLYOXYLATE-REDUCTASE	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	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
Hypotensive	18	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Hypotensive?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	6	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	9	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Immunosuppressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	2	Martindale's 29th
Insectifuge	5	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insectiphile	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinotonic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Irritant	6	Merck 11th Edition
Keratolytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Lachrymatory	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Larvicide	1	Duke, 1992 *