What is opium?

Problem description:

Pictures of opium.

Analysis:

Opium, also known as "opium", commonly known as "opium", "opium smoke" and "smoked soil", is a transliteration of the English name Opium, which comes from opium poppy. Opium is divided into raw opium and cooked opium.

Poppy (hereinafter referred to as poppy) is a biennial herb.

Sowing in early winter and flowering in spring every year. Its colors are gorgeous, including red, pink, purple and white. In early summer, when the fruit is close to full maturity, the poppy shell is cut with a knife, and the oozing milky juice naturally dries and condenses into a sticky paste, and the color changes from milky white to dark brown. These pastes are scraped off with a smoke knife and become raw opium. Raw opium has a strong smell similar to ammonia water and tastes bitter. After standing for a long time, with the gradual loss of water, it gradually becomes brown-black blocks with different shapes, and is often sold in the form of balls, cakes or bricks.