Poppy
Poppy is a non-scientific common name that may refer to a number of plant species and varieties.
Contents
Nomenclature
Other Names:
Historical Use of Poppy
Poppy in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Description
Historical Use of Poppy in Western Medicine
Quote Paraph: "Frothy poppy acts as a 'specific' emetic for epilepsy; the 'frothy' structure of the plant could have served as a signature, associating it with the well-known frothing of the epileptic, and its other name of 'heracleia' connects it with the disease of Heracles."
Sec Auth: Temkin O
Title: The Falling Sickness. Second Edition, Revised, Softshell Books edition, 1994
Page: 80
Source: The Falling Sickness, Second Edition, Revised, Softshell Books edition, 1994,Owsei Temkin
Complete: Temkin O. The falling sickness: a history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginnings of modern neurology. London: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2 Revised Edition, (Softshell Books) ; 1994. p. 80.
Primary Source: 548 Cf. Dioscurides (282), ed. Wellmann, vol. 2, p.223, 12.
Background
Synonymns for Poppy
Patent Medicines and Medicines with Multiple Ingredients that include Poppy
Pharmaceutical Information
Chemical Constituents
Evidence or the Use of Poppy in the Treatment of Epilepesy
Basic Science
Animal Studies
Cohort, Case-Control and Non-Randomized Trials
Randomized Controlled Trials
Meta-Analysis
1st Five Results: pubmed search
