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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Laxative	4	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Leucocytogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipase-Inhibitor	2	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Lipolytic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Lipotropic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Lithogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic	2	Martindale's 29th
Lubricant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lymphocytogenic	1	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Memorigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Metal-Chelator	2	McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
Molluscicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Monoamine-Precursor	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mucogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).