Opium poppy has a pepper pot-shaped seed, bulbous bluish-green capsule containing many gray-to-black poppy seeds. Opium poppy is a powerful medicinal plant and also a highly addictive narcotic plant. Although it can be found in many fields across sunny dry regions. the cultivation of opium poppy is legally restricted in the United States and many other countries which means you can have the plant in your "back garden indoors" (note i didn't say "front garden") for your own health needs but you cannot harvest or extract it for mass production. They bloom in early summer in full sun in well drained soil. The juice is harvested by making shallow cuts in the unripe seed capsule but the seeds are harvested after it is ripe. Opium poppy is illegally grown by "some" for the heroin trade; but this doesn't take away from the fact that Opium poppy is the most effective pain killer and most effective sedative used in conventional medicine. It is used in the making of the most popular medicinal painkillers, morphine and codeine as well as the illegal drug heroin mentioned earlier.
Ancient and current medicinal uses:
In Ancient Greece, Hippocrates wrote about Opium poppy usefulness in treating pain and internal disorders. Opium usefulness spread throughout Europe as they continued to use it as a pain killer and sedative. In the 1600s, an alcoholic tincture of opium called Laudanum was developed. By the 1800s Landanum was used in many patent medicines to relieve pain, induce sleep, calm nerves, and treat many common aliments. It was prescribed by physicians for everything from cold to cardiac diseases, in both children and adults. Many women were given the drug to relieve menstrual cramps and "nerves". Opium in other forms were also used for diarrhea, coughs, pain, nephritis, angina and insanity etc. In 1803 morphine was isolated from opium poppy then few years later the isolation of codeine followed from the same opium poppy plant. At the time morphine was thought to be more effective and safer than crude opium preparation so they began to use it to control pain and relieve severe coughs and diarrhea. In the 1860s morphine was used extensively in conventional medicine as a painkiller and to treat dysentery in the civil war but it became increasingly addictive to those who used it; then in the 1870s a substitute called heroin which they thought was less addictive was introduced for patient treatment. It was used as an effective cough suppressant for tuberculosis and to combat morphine addiction, but it become much more addictive than morphine itself. By the 1920s the use of morphine, heroin, opium, and opium derivatives outside of medical practice was made illegal in the United States. Morphine, codeine is still used in treating severe pain and cough in conventional medicine neglecting its addictive side effects.
Research:
Opium contains 26 different Alkaloids, The most potent derivative from opium poppy plant is morphine. Morphine is effective but highly addictive and fatal in high doses. Morphine exerts its effect on sensory nerve cells of the brain, blocking pain signals. It is a stimulant that binds to endorphin receptors in the brain, inducing feelings of euphoria and eliminating anxieties.
Codeine is another potent opium alkaloid derived from opium poppy plant, an ingredient you find in most prescription cough syrups and capsules. It has both cough suppressant and analgesic properties and is often used to relieve minor pain by physician and dentist. The opium alkaloid papaverine blocks nerve impulses responsible for muscular contractions and therefore it acts as a very effective muscle relaxant. Commonly used to treat spasms of stomach and intestinal muscles and to stop bronchial spasms triggered by asthma attacks.
The above information you have read is about opium poppy plant been the best and most effective natural pain killer and cough suppressant. This is can be useful for cancer patients and patients with joint and nerve problems who desire a natural alternative to addictive morphine and codeine chemical prescription tablets
you can grow one or two plants it indoors, in your back yard but please do not grow this at the front of your house--it's legally restricted, which means you can go to jail for mass cultivation & extraction however you can use it as a natural pain killer in the privacy of your home.
Poppy seeds are used for culinary purposes such as baking while poppy fruit are used as medicinal juice.
The above information you have read is about opium poppy plant been the best and most effective natural pain killer and cough suppressant. This can be useful for cancer patients and patients with joint and nerve problems who desire a natural alternative to addictive morphine and codeine chemical prescription tablets
you can grow one or two plants indoors, in your back yard but please do not grow this at the front of your house--it's legally restricted, which means you can go to jail for mass cultivation & extraction however you can use it as a natural pain killer in the privacy of your home.
Note: it is a strong medicine so therefore it is wise you seek the advise of Holistic Doctor (Naturopath).
Disclaimer: This is not intended to be used as a prescription or cure, this is an educational article. A recommendation, not a cure or diagnoses.
Opium helps child drug addicts when withdrawal symptoms arise.
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