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
RETICULINE	10	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RETICULINE	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHOEADINE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHOEADINE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Seed	1.6	1.9	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
ROEMERINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
S-RETICULINE	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
S-RETICULINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
S-RETICULINE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLATES	7	Seed	not available	0.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
SALUTARIDINE	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALUTARIDINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALUTARIDINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
SALUTARIDINE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALUTARIDINOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
SALUTARIDINOLE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SANGUINARINE	48	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SANGUINARINE	48	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
SANGUINARINE	48	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SANGUINARINE	48	Stem	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
Antibronchitic	1	Martindale's 28th
Anticalculic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	6	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	6	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticerebrotic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.