What kind of traditional medicine is opium?

Opium is a traditional anesthetic. Opium was introduced to China in BC 139 when Zhang Qian was sent to the Western Regions. During the Three Kingdoms period, the famous doctor Hua Tuo used marijuana and opium as anesthetics. In the second year of Ganfeng in the Tang Dynasty (AD 667), there was a record of opium import, and the Arab opium in the Tang Dynasty was called "A Furong". In the "Kaibao Materia Medica" published in the Northern Song Dynasty in 973 AD, opium was named poppy millet, and the latter "millet" was the solution of capsules.

At present, opium is mainly used for medical treatment, but it is still used in medicine, such as opium powder, tablets, compound platycodon grandiflorum powder, Toxoplasma gondii powder and Koga tablets. Fill in the annual import quantity and pay the drug import tax according to the quantity required by each country before the customs agrees to import. Generally speaking, half-cooked opium is imported. The main medical uses are anesthesia and dyeing.

harm

Harm of Opium: Opium can make people addicted to drugs, thus inducing mental and psychological problems, such as social disorder, anxiety and depression. Some drug addicts are also complicated with many other mental diseases, such as schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and so on. If these diseases are not cured, it is easy to lead to the relapse of drug addiction.

Composition of opium: Raw opium contains 15%-30% minerals, resin and water, and also contains special alkaloids. Alkaloids can be divided into three categories: one is morphine alkaloids, including three components, morphine, codeine and thebaine; One is papaverine alkaloid; A class of narcotine hydrochloride alkaloids.