wild poppy in water
Original passage
For my own part, however, I do not approve of opium entering into the composition of eye-salves, and still less of the preparations from it known as febrifuges, digestives, and cœliacs: the black poppy, however, is very generally prescribed, in wine, for cœliac affections. All the cultivated poppies are larger than the others, and the form of the head is round. In the the head is elongated and small, but it is possessed of more active properties than the others in every respect. , and taken to promote sleep, . The best poppies are grown in dry localities, and where it seldom rains.
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4 (of 6): Books XVIII–XXIII, translated by John Bostock; H. T. Riley (1856 edition) · Book 20, chapter 76 · THE WHITE POPPY: THREE REMEDIES. THE BLACK POPPY: EIGHT REMEDIES. REMARKS ON SLEEP. OPIUM. REMARKS IN DISFAVOUR OF THE POTIONS KNOWN AS “ANODYNES, FEBRIFUGES, DIGESTIVES, AND CŒLIACS.” IN WHAT WAY THE JUICES OF THESE PLANTS ARE TO BE COLLECTED. · lines 10737–10747 · passage pliny-nh:b20:c076:002
What the pipeline extracted
- 1PlantProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.wild poppy“wild poppy”
- 2PartProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.fruit“This head is often boiled”
- 3HeatProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.boiled“This head is often boiled”
- 4ProcessProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.decoction“the decoction of it”
- 5Use (as written)ProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.to promote sleep“to promote sleep”
- 6FormProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.other“the face being fomented also with the water”
- 7Solvent / vehicleProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.Water“fomented also with the water”
- Fresh or driedNot stated in source
- DurationNot stated in source
- FiltrationNot stated in source