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
LACTIC-ACID	8	Latex Exudate	10000.0	20000.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
LANTHOPINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LANTHOPINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAUDANIDINE	0	Latex Exudate	not available	30.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAUDANIDINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAUDANINE	1	Latex Exudate	not available	100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAUDANINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAUDANOSINE	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAUDANOSINE	4	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAUDANOSINE	4	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAUDANOSINE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID	7	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAUROLEIC-ACID	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LECITHIN	20	Seed	not available	28000.0	0.02	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
LEUCINE	2	Seed	14840.0	15919.0	-0.11	Duke, 1992 *
LIGNOCERIC-ACID	1	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	300335.0	309465.0	1.73	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENOLEIC-ACID	0	Seed Oil	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