HistoryofMadness
01-27-2007, 04:51 PM
Ok, its been said that the petals of the rhoeas flower are active, with alkaloids, and the pods are mildly opiate-like (maybe trace amounts of morphine or thebaine). But I've recently learned that when you cut a rhoeas pod, a latex sap drips from the bottom of the stem (making it impossible to keep) unless you pass the end of the stem over a flame once or twice.
All of the testing I've ever read about on this plant (and I've been reading for days, so if you see something different, please post) has been either just on the leaves of the flower or on everything but the stems. Most on just the petals.
Only one discussed testing stems in the material, and it was a very small amount of stems. And the plant was already dried.
A unique alkaloid, called rheadine, has been identified in papaver rhoeas. Interestingly enough, after it was ID'd, it was also ID'd in the somni.
So my thought is, what if anything is in the latex in the stem? What if the latex has large amounts of rheadine? I've ground the stems of dried plants, and it may be a placebo, but they seemed more active than the pods.
Any thoughts or info would be great.
All of the testing I've ever read about on this plant (and I've been reading for days, so if you see something different, please post) has been either just on the leaves of the flower or on everything but the stems. Most on just the petals.
Only one discussed testing stems in the material, and it was a very small amount of stems. And the plant was already dried.
A unique alkaloid, called rheadine, has been identified in papaver rhoeas. Interestingly enough, after it was ID'd, it was also ID'd in the somni.
So my thought is, what if anything is in the latex in the stem? What if the latex has large amounts of rheadine? I've ground the stems of dried plants, and it may be a placebo, but they seemed more active than the pods.
Any thoughts or info would be great.