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Common Names
Opium Poppy; Poppyseed Poppy
How this plant is used
Food
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| 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 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Toxic | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Tranquilizer | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tremorigenic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Trichomonicide | 3 | Martindale's 29th |
| Trypanocide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tumor-Promoter | 1 | J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079. |
| Tumorigenic | 1 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Tyrosinase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Ubiquiot | 4 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Ulcerogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Uricosuric | 3 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Urinary-Acidulant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Urine-Acidifier | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Urine-Deodorant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Uterocontractant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Uterorelaxant | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Uterosedative | 2 | Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990. |
| Uterotonic | 3 | Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989. |
| UV-Screen | 1 | Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp. |
| Vagostimulant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |