PAPAVER
\pˈape͡ɪvə], \pˈapeɪvə], \p_ˈa_p_eɪ_v_ə]\
Definitions of PAPAVER
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- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
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- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
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By Princeton University
By Noah Webster.
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A genus of Eurasian herbaceous plants, the poppies (family PAPAVERACEAE of the dicotyledon class Magnoliopsida), that yield OPIUM from the latex of the unripe seed pods.
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Is used in fomentation as an anodyne and relaxant, to inflamed or ulcerated parts. The expressed oil of the seeds is called by the French Huile d’OEillette. It is from the poppy that OPIUM. It is the milky juice obtained after the flowering of the plant, by making longitudinal incisions in the capsules and stalks. It is commonly obtained from the Levant or India, where the poppy grows abundantly. Opium is a compound of morphia, narcotina, meconic acid, codeia, narcein, meconin, caoutchouc, fecula, resin, oil, and several other substances. Turkey Opium is of a heavy and slightly fetid colour. Its taste is nauseous, bitter, acrid, and warm: it is in flat pieces; solid and tenacious; of a dark brown colour, and yellowish when powdered; making a light brown, interrupted streak on paper. In East India Opium, the odour is the same, and empyreumatic; the taste is less bitter, but more nauseous, and the colour darker. The varieties of opium known in commerce are the Smyrna, the Constantinople, the Egyptian, the Persian, and the Indian. Opium is stimulant in small doses; sedative, in large; narcotic and anodyne; operating through the nervous system. It is a most valuable remedy in all painful affections, and inflammations, when given so as to produce its full, sedative effects, especially in peritonitis. In diarrhoea and dysentery, it acts as an astringent; and in intermittents, it will often prevent the paroxysm. In typhus, in small doses, it acts as a cordial; in larger, it allays irritation and produces sleep. When applied externally, its narcotic effects are developed: and, hence, it Is a useful application to irritable sores, painful tumours, &c. Dose. gr. 1/4 to 1/2 as a stimulant; gr. j to iv as a sedative.
By Robley Dunglison
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