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| Bangla Name : | Afing,Afim,Posto,Posto dana. |
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| English Name : | Opium poppy,Mawseed. |
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| Family : | Papaveraceae |
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| Disease : | Asthma, cirorhosis, duodenal ulcer, eclampsia, gastric tumor, gynaecological disease, piles, stomach |
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| Description : | Stems simple or branching. Leaves to 30 cm; blade sometimes sparsely setose abaxially on midrib; margins usually shallowly to deeply toothed. Inflorescences: peduncle often sparsely setose. Flowers: petals white, pink, red, or purple, often with dark or pale basal spot ,anthers pale yellow; stigmas 5-18, disc ± flat. Capsules stipitate, subglobose, not ribbed, glaucous. |
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| Distribution : | This species found throughout Bangladesh. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Sap contains oxalic acid and opium contains some 25 alkaloids, the chief being morphine, codeine, thebaine, narcotine, riarceine, rioscapine and papaverine. Poppy seed oil is a drying oil. It dries much slower and more uniformly than linseed oil. Meconic |
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| Uses : | The plant is used in Asthma, cirorhosis, duodenal ulcer, eclampsia, gastric tumor, gynaecological disease, piles, stomach disorder. |
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