Master Herbalist is a health product consultant and performs research on alternative therapies. He can be contacted at [email protected]. The severity of chronic pain can be mild to severe and it can be episodic or continuous. In some cases the pain partially affects the patient's well-being, level of function, and quality of life and in others it is completely incapacitat...

For centuries the world has appreciated the potent analgesic qualities and adverse effects/addictive qualities of opioids. Evidence of potential poppy plant use (preserved remains of cultivated poppy seeds and pods) may date back to the fourth millennium BC (2). Opium was proposed as a remedy for multiple ailments in 1552 BC in the Ebers papyrus. Drug use in ancient central Asia is evidenced by...

Resumo: A subcultura gótica apresenta uma disposição altamente performática, algo que se reporta a sexualidade, corpo e gênero e, assim, cena propicia o surgimento de identidades queer. O autor transgênero Poppy Z. Brite insere romance Lost Souls nesse contexto, sendo um dos poucos autores ficção relacionar sua obra à mesmo nome. Nesse artigo, discorro sobre em paralelo teoria Butler, então ana...

Quantitation of morphine and other major alkaloids in opium gum from specially cultivated Papaver setigerum DC (“Wild Poppy”) is presented. Papaver setigerum plants (n = 14) were grown in an atmosphere containing a slightly elevated level of carbon dioxide (390 ppm). Opium gum collected from the capsules of the mature plants was analyzed for morphine, codeine, thebaine, noscapine, and papaverin...

In this research there were studied the effects of NaCl-induced salinity and environment temperatures on germination seedlings growth domestic poppy. The study was conducted in controlled conditions plant chamber. There applied different concentrations NaCl (0 mM (control), 50 mM, 100 150 mM) (10°C, 15°C 20°C). seeds poppy cultivar (Detkovac) sown 4 replicates filter paper. energy determined 5t...

Dietary lipids can suppress methane emission from ruminants, but effects are variable. Especially the role of bacteria, archaea, fungi and protozoa in mediating the lipid effects is unclear. In the present in vitro study, archaea, fungi and protozoa were selectively inhibited by specific agents. This was fully or almost fully successful for fungi and protozoa as well as archaeal activity as det...