This well known guide to growing poppies and extracting opium presents useful information in a format and style accessible to just about everyone. I'm disappointed that there's no footnotes or references, though there is a brief bibliography. Useful as a basic source of information about opium and poppies, but doesn't go into great depth in any particular area. Back Cover Opium. Opium is the parent of morphine, heroin, laudanum, Darvocet, Darvon, and many other pain relievers.
Opium causes poets to rhapsodize and nations to go to war.
The stunning similarities between opium and your body's natural endorphines. Morphine and its derivatives, both pharmaceutical and street. How to grow opium poppies Sources for fertile poppy seeds How to harvest the opium from a crop of poppies How to make poppy tea. Other ways of making and ingesting opium amd much more. Jim Hogshire, the author of Sell Yourself to Science, is an expert on the history of medicines.