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
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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Mucolytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Musculotropic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Mutagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Mydriatic	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Myocardiocontractant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Myocardiodepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myocontractant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	6	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Narcotic	4	Merck 11th Edition
Natriuretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	4	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neuroexcitant	1	Martindale's 28th
Neuroinhibitor	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neuroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Neurotransmitter	2	Martindale's 29th
NF-kB-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Occulotensive	1	Duke, 1992 *