What is opium, commonly known as opium?

Opium is also called opium, commonly known as opium.

Opium is a primary drug, which is black or brown depending on its origin. Have a strong smell, ammonia smell or old urine smell. Generally, it becomes cooked opium for human consumption after cooking and fermentation, and is made into strips or cakes. At this time, it is brown or golden yellow, and it will have a sweet taste after inhalation. It comes from the poppy capsule and contains more than 20 alkaloids, which can be divided into phenanthrene and isoquinoline.

Poppy, as a symbol of transcendental power considered by archaeologists, was accidentally discovered in the middle reaches of the mountains on the east coast of the Mediterranean in Neolithic age. Poppy cultivation began in Asia Minor and spread in this ancient world for a long time. Poppies have cultivated opium for more than 6000 years.

Plant characteristics of opium

Opium is a biennial plant of Papaveraceae 1 or, with a height of 1- 1.5m, belonging to 28 genera and more than 250 species. It mainly grows in almost all temperate and subtropical regions in the northern hemisphere, with red, purple or white flowers in summer, spherical or oval capsules and small and numerous seeds. "

There are two kinds of opium: one is poppy, which is Greek, meaning poppy, and hypnosis is Latin, meaning dreaming or hypnosis. Traditionally cultivated in the Middle East or Asia to produce opium, the other is NIDRUM, a poppy with poppy oil extracted, which is cultivated in Europe and used to produce some alkaloids in opium in recent years.