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	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
(+)-LAUDANIDINE	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-RETICULINE	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-RETICULINE	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-ALPHA-NARCOTINE	Inflorescence	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-NARCOTOLINE	Inflorescence	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-SCOULERINE	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-SCOULERINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-HYDROXYCODEINE	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-NONACOSANOL	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
13-OXOCRYPTOPINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
16-HYDROXYTHEBAINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
20-HYDROXY-TRICOSANYLCYCLOHEXANE	Fruit	not available	36.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-METHYL-NONACOSANE	Fruit	not available	3.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
5'-O-DEMETHYLNARCOTINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
5-HYDROXY-3,7-DIMETHOXYPHENANTHRENE	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-ACTEONLYDIHYDROSANGUINARINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHYL-CODEINE	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHYL-CODEINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
ACONITASE	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
Prooxidant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Pyrogenic	1	Dasgupta, S., Ray, A. B., Bhattacharya, S. K., Bose, R. 1979. Constituents of Pachygone ovata and Pharmacological Action of its Major Leaf Alkaloid. J Nat Prod, 42(4): 399-406.
Refrigerant	1	Martindale's 28th
Renotoxic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Respiradepressant	1	Martindale's 28th
Respirasedative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Respirastimulant	4	Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.
Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
RNA-Depressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Roborant	1	Merck 11th Edition
RT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Schizophrenigenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Sedative	11	Duke, 1992 *
Sequestrant	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Serotoninergic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Sialogogue	2	Martindale's 29th