Poppy

The plant poppy concerns to family of poppy. In the European countries poppy is grown up for receiving oil, production of drugs, perfumery products, and in Asian – Turkey, Iran, India, Afghanistan, China, Central and Asia Minor from poppy receive opium.

Advantage of poppy

In poppy seeds fats – about 50%, proteins, carbohydrates, celluloses, vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B4, B6, B9, C, E, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, sodium, calcium, selenium, manganese, iron, copper, zinc are found.

Glycosides, alkaloids, vitamin C, gum, organic acids, anthocyans, flavonoids, oil are found in plant flowers, and in their petals.

The advantage of poppy for pharmaceutics is in what on the basis of allocated from poppy boxes of codeine, morphine and a papaverine is made by anesthetics, somnolent, antibechic, antispasmodics which are used for treatment of ulcer gastrointestinal diseases, supertension, a heart attack, stenocardia, renal and hepatic gripes, for removal of the postoperative pains and pains caused by cancer and other serious diseases.

From the same morphine and codeine also narcotic substances in this connection cultivation of poppy is under control of the state are produced.

Caloric content of poppy makes 520 calories – in 100 grams of seeds.

Use of poppy in traditional medicine

The informal medicine generally uses recipes with use of the poppy pounded with honey or water.

The poppy seeds ground with honey use for treatment of diseases of a liver, and the so-called "poppy milk" (water and poppy) is effective at pneumonia and hemorrhoids. Drink a milk on 125 ml 3-4 times a day.

The poppy seeds welded on water at the regular use improve digestion, apply broth from poppy roots at migraine, a sciatica (an inflammation of a sciatic nerve), use broth from petals of poppy for improvement of a dream, treatment of bronchitis, Qatar of a stomach.

For treatment of gastric diseases it is possible to use broth from the powder prepared from dry petals of poppy. If to make such powder on honey water or milk, the means helping at intellectual overfatigue, sleeplessness will turn out.

As the outside, killing pain means, it is possible to use poultices from leaves of poppy or its heads. At stings of insects the juice received from poppy heads helps.

Leaves of poppy help to remove also warts and to treat sore joints – put them to sore points.

The main advantage of poppy for house medicine is, of course, disposal of sleeplessness. Except pharmaceutical drugs and the recipes stated above such infusion helps: poppy seeds (5-10 гр.) fill in with boiled water (200 ml), cool, filter. It is possible to drink means on 50 ml for the night. It is allowed to mix infusion with honey.

For recovery of a dream it is possible to accept also the poppy seeds which are simply pounded with honey.

By the way, it is important to know that mature poppy seeds have no narcotic property – they drowse only. With care it is necessary to treat only juice which is emitted from.

High caloric content of poppy, its seeds, it is necessary to consider that who keeps to a diet.

Contraindications

Independent use of poppy as house tinctures and broths or ready medical supplies is undesirable. It is necessary to treat drugs on the basis of poppy with care and to accept only them after consultation with the observing doctor.

In particular, drugs on the basis of poppy can do special harm to elderly people, those who has alcoholism, to children up to two years, to patients with bronchial asthma, emphysema of lungs, an anoxemia, trouble breathing, liver diseases.

Abuse of the broths prepared from unripe poppy heads harmful influences a nervous system, can cause dependence.

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