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Poppy Seed

Poppy is an annual or biennial herb, 150 cm tall, glabrous or glaucous, sometimes with a few spreading bristles. The stems are slightly branched, with erect large leaves, that are numerous, ovate to oblong, serrate to dentate-serrate, and clasping at the base, glaucous, the lower ones pinnatifid. The flowers are on long peduncles with nodding buds that expand into erect flowers. The petals numbering 8 are white to purplish, in varieties also pink, violet, bluish, or red, and are 5 - 7 cm long. The fruit is a capsule, ovoid to globose, glabrous, 4\endash 6 cm long, and 3.5 - 4 cm in diameter, with 8 - 12 rayed sessile stigmas. The seeds are oily, mid to pale blue.

	2 oz	4 oz	8 oz	1 lb
Poppy Seed Whole	$2.00	$2.25	$2.70	$4.21

Properties/Uses - Analgesic, anodyne, antitussive, aphrodisiac, astringent, bactericidal, calmative, carminative, demulcent, emollient, expectorant, hemostat, hypotensive, hypnotic, narcotic, nervine, sedative, sudorific, tonic. The seeds are viable and will sprout beautiful poppies, or just have chewy small sprouts for your salad. There are innumerable cake and bread and other recipes that call for poppy seeds. Ground seeds are a common thickening agent in Indian cooking and are a good source of energy. They are also the source of a drying-oil, used for manufacture of paints, varnishes, and soaps, and in foods and salad dressing. Poppy Seed has been used in folk remedies for asthma, bladder, bruises, cancer, catarrh, cold, colic, conjunctivitis, cough, diarrhea, dysentery, dysmenorrhea, enteritis, enterorrhagia, fever, flux, headache, hemicrania, hypertension, hypochondria, hysteria, inflammation, insomnia, leucorrhea, malaria, mania, melancholy, nausea, neuralgia, otitis, pertussis, prolapse, rectitis, rheumatism, snakebite, spasm, spermatorrhea, sprain, stomachache, swelling, toothache, tumor, ulcers, and warts. Poppy seed has also been used as a remedy for such cancerous conditions as cancer of the skin, stomach, tongue, uterus, carcinoma of the breast, polyps of the ear, nose, and vagina; scleroses of the liver, spleen, and uterus; and tumors of the abdomen, bladder, eyes, fauces, liver, spleen, and uvula.

Botanical Name - Papaver somniferum

Part Used - Root

Common Names/Synonyms - Papaver Sominferum, Adormidera, Adormidero, Blue Bread Seed Poppy, Chandu, Gelinjik, Hashas, Kheshkhash Abu Al Noum, Madat, Mawseed, O Fang, O Fu Jung, O P'Ien, Opium, Pavot, Poppy, Tengkoh, White Poppy, Ya P'Ien, Yu Mi

Cautions - Considered to be safe in normal usage.

Poppy Seed in larger sizes


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