Poppy Natural Remedies

The poppy is from the family mechanically known as Papaveraceae and has been used for thousands of years in making natural remedies for a variety illnesses and ailments. One of the reasons why this plant has been successful in treating patients is for the same reasons that medications are still being made from it, and that is because of the alkaloids found in the opium poppy.

Some of the natural remedies that were used were tinctures and tonics to treat patients for things such as insomnia, nervousness, anxiety and pain. It was also used in treating coughs from diseases like tuberculosis and whooping cough that babies often had.

During these times hundreds and thousands of years ago the opium poppy would have seemed a magical plant with the alkaloids that it contains in treating patients, because all they had to rely on was plant medicine.

Some of the great physicians of all time such as Hippocrates and Discorides left written record of the amazing health benefits can be achieved with Papaver somniferum. Although they did not know during these times of the addictive properties of the opium poppy also held with continued treatment. Even if they had known it still would have been used in many cases because it was the only herbal medicine that would've been strong enough to treat some conditions. While it was used to treat insomnia because of its ability to cause sleep it could have been used during surgeries in these early years of medicine.