Beautiful But Drugs ( POPPY FLOWER / OPIUM )

alreina740 (-2)(1)in #philippines • 7 years ago (edited)

For flower lovers, you may have heard of poppies. This plant has an interesting diversity of colors as well as other ornamental plants. But, you know? Behind the beautiful looks there are elements in it that are dangerous and you need to be aware. Poppy flowers produce sap that contains compounds contained in drugs. Because of its drug-containing nature, so its growth in various countries has been limited.

In the world of medicine, opium or also known as poppy flower is a flower containing alkaloid poison. Opium has long taken its sap for medicinal purposes. Morphine and alkaloids in it often cause hallucinations like drug consumption.

Plants that have a height of 13-91 cm is an annual plant that is upright stature with elongated shape, jagged and looks bumpy. Opium can be used from stems, seeds to sap. However, among the useful parts of the body, the sap is the most economically valuable. Opium sap is commonly used for the raw material of codeine, heroin and morphine. Opium sap is taken by tapping or slashing the fruit and left until the sap exits and thickens. After being silenced for one day, opium sap will change color to brownish. The opium sap is removed by means of a special knife. Each plant can be tapped 3-4 times in a season. The sap contains a mixture of naturally occurring alkaloids, including morphine and codeine. Morphine or acetylated produces diacetylmorphine (or better known as heroin).

Although known as a plant that can function as a drug, opium remains a poison that if used can continue to cause dependence. Large doses of opium can cause poisoning, even kissing the vapor alone can make a person hallucinate to death. Acute respiratory problems, coma, heart stops and damaged lungs are the side effects of opium that can cause a person's death.

Such is the review of the dangers of poppy flower plants. Hopefully useful for you readers. To add insight, you read also the interest that has been reviewed previously.