Lohoch Of Poppies

No Latin name recorded

HRB-0328An index name, “Lohoch of Poppies”: the 1850 index lists it, and the book has no entry under that name

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Old claims, quoted verbatim: not medical advice. A warning sits above the claims and never hides them; no warning does not mean safe, only that no source here has flagged the plant.

⚠ Poisonous · Heads (pods), their juice, unwashed seedsA poppy syrup. Its heads carry morphine and codeine. Tea from poppy heads or unwashed seeds has killed: a CSPI count found 13 confirmed deaths in the US.Morphine and codeine are made from it.EFSA: Codeine, Morphine, Noscapine and 2 more · Culpeper's entry covers several poppies; this flag is for the white poppy.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 1, under 1 heading

  1. PleurisiesCLM-0023901850 index, pp. 313, 321

    Listed in the 1850 index under a name the book has no herbal entry for. No quotation is recorded.

    Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance

Source

Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850

Quotations are verbatim from the 1850 text, line breaks joined. Modern research and the European regulator’s verdict on each claim are on the Concordance page, kept apart from this historical record.