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Plant Papaver somniferum (Papaveraceae)

Common Names
Opium Poppy; Poppyseed Poppy
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SANGUINARINE 48 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SEDOHEPTULOSE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
SERINE 1 Seed 9870.0 10588.0 0.00 Duke, 1992 *
SINAPIC-ACID 9 Pericarp not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SITOSTEROL 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SODIUM 1 Seed 155.0 300.0 -0.24 Duke, 1992 *
SOMNIFERINE 2 Inflorescence not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SQUALENE 10 Seed not available 59.0 -1.17 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 5890.0 8036.0 -0.39 Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STEPHOLIDINE 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STEPHOLIDINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Seed 50.0 55.0 -0.46 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
SUCCINATE-DEHYDROGENASE 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SUCCINIC-ACID 7 Latex Exudate not available not available not available ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SULFURIC-ACID 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Latex Exudate not available not available not available ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TETRAHYDROCOLUMBAMINE 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TETRAHYDROPALMATINE 9 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Soap 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Soporific 1 Duke, 1992 *
Spasmogenic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spermicide 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Spermigenic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Spinodepressant 1 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Stimulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Stomachic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen 4 Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Suppository 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sweetener 2 Martindale's 28th
Sympatholytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Sympathomimetic 1 Martindale's 29th
Teratogenic 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Tetanic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Thyrotropic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 2 Kobayashi, Y, Yamashita, Y., Fujii, N., Takaboshi, K., Kawakami, T., Kawamura, M., Mizukami, T., Nakano, H. 1995. Inhibitors of DNA Topoisomerase I and II Isolated From the Coptis Rhizomes. Planta Medica, 61: 414-418.