"Opium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The air-dried exudate from the unripe seed capsule of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, or its variant, P. album. It contains a number of alkaloids, but only a few - MORPHINE; CODEINE; and PAPAVERINE - have clinical significance. Opium has been used as an analgesic, antitussive, antidiarrheal, and antispasmodic.
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D009892
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D20.215.784.500.534
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Studies on poppy seed (Papaver somniferum). I. Free amino acids. Naturwissenschaften. 1965 Sep; 52(18):516-7.