Papaver Somniferum

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Papaver Somniferum

Finding a relief from pain is a timeless search, either it is something physical as a result of an accident or disease, or the soul is the one that hurts.

We may imagine our ancestors, moved by the very basic necessity of eating; looking for more options as to what could they feed on. And what a surprise might have been then, while tasting some plants, looking for something tasty to eat to discover a new but strange effect on some of them. Perhaps, they didn’t taste so well, but a sensation of being sort of flying and a consequent and growing necessity of having those sensations repeated, because even their bodies requested it, may even have caused some disasters here and there, as very often, their behavior became unusually aggressive towards others.

Then, we can think that the ancient wise leaders decided, those plants were not recommendable to be eaten, so they were forbidden. Some of those addict pioneers discover that they could -wrongly thinking- escape reality and satisfy their hunger, so they were reluctant to accept the council of the wise, and continued consuming their now favorite plants.

Centuries passed, as these plants were considered to be devilish, a curse sent from evil deities, all of these as a result of their already known effects. So they acquired a religious status and their use was given to the priests, who in the process, discovered that used carefully and wisely, some of these plants had medicinal properties, while others, were useful as relievers of pain, while curing a disease.

Nowadays, having partially inherited these knowledge, we continue using the substances contained in those plants, but thanks to modern technology, a greater advantage is taken, for they can be divided into their most basic molecular form, and this wide variety of substances have very specialized purposes in medicine.

One of the most popular of these clinical used plants is the Papaver Somniferum. Mainly used to extract morphine, which is a naturally contained substance in this flower. Very useful in the relieving from moderate to strong pain, has the highest dependence liability on narcotic analgesics in common use, after heroin.

When particularly administered intravenously, morphine gives a strong sensation of relaxation and euphoria. Physical dependence grows quickly as well as a psychological one so its use is very delicate. Cases of morphine dependant people in hospitals are not really a surprise.

Of course, because of these characteristics, its use is not limited to hospitals and health care centers; it is lowly used in the drug world thanks to its mostly medical-only availability.

So even after thousands of years, papaver somniferum keeps having pretty much the same effects on medicine and society. It is effective, but difficult to use it just as an aid for pain relief, because that easily becomes a pleasure.