Plants with toxic alkaloids - University of Washington
Plants with toxic alkaloids - University of Washington
Plants with toxic alkaloids - University of Washington
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Papaveracea – Poppy family -Opium<br />
Opium lachryma papaveris) is the dried<br />
latex from the opium poppy Papaver<br />
somniferum containing up to 12%<br />
morphine, adjusted for medicine to 10 %<br />
(Europe).<br />
Morphine is a potent opiate analgesic<br />
medication. It was the first alkaloid to be<br />
isolated in 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner,<br />
a “Apotheker” in Halle (Germany), first<br />
distributed by same in 1817, and first<br />
commercially sold by Merck in 1827,<br />
which at the time was a single small<br />
chemists' shop in Darmstadt.<br />
Morphine is regarded as the gold standard <strong>of</strong> analgesics to relieve severe, agonizing<br />
pain. Like other opioids, such as oxycodone, hydromorphone, and diacetylmorphine<br />
(heroin), it acts directly on the CNS. Morphine has a high potential for addiction;<br />
tolerance and psychological dependence develop rapidly,
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