Papaver somniferum - The Opium Poppy

I’m copying this over from my Instagram because I’m not sure anyone reads what I write over there & I’ve been writing quite a lot.

I have such a hard time organising myself & now it seems that only images should be there & only writing over here, what do do - I guess I will just do both at both & hope for the best. 

There is an indigenous concept that nature is so intelligent & interconnected with us that it is always responding to the needs of its local population in the varieties of plants that thrive & multiply nearby.

Raw plant medicine is often safer, though in this particular instance illegal 🤷‍♀️ - when compared with the suped up, highly processed pharmaceutical end product.

Nicholas Culpeper wrote in The English Physician, (1652) that opium was a good remedy for menstrual cramps, gout and toothache, and recommended it as a sedative: “The Garden Poppy heads, with seeds made into a Syrup, is frequently and to good effect used to procure rest and sleep in the sick and weak.”

These wild seeding Opium Poppies are growing absolutely all over the place near me but as I said they are illegal to utilise in any way.

This law is sold to you on safety when in reality it’s all about dependence & profit & control & yet meanwhile their ultra processed versions have killed millions upon millions.