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Poppy

Nature

Poppy as a plant people have named and used. Sleep, red field, soft forgetting — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Poppy is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ Materia Medica treats poppy among sleep-inducing plant drugs. A named poppy in that handbook, not opium as a refined later product dump and not a Flanders memorial flatten alone.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

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  • Poppy is historically related to Oil.

    In Elder's Natural History, Poppy is named in the finish and formula lemmas beside Oil.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Poppy is historically related to Vinegar.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, green poppy leaves or heads bruised and applied with a little vinegar, or made into a poultice with barley-meal, cool inflammation — poppy is dressed with that vinegar.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Poppy is historically related to Walnut.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, linseed is pressed in the same press in which olive, walnut, or poppy oil is accustomed to be expressed — poppy oil shares that walnut oil press.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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  • Poppy is historically related to Honey.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, Diapendion takes white poppy seeds with pine-nuts and sweet almonds among its powders for an electuary made up with honey — poppy seed is worked into that honey.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Poppy is historically related to Minium.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, oil expressed like olive, walnut, or poppy oil is used to grind minium or cinnabar on the stone without water, then paint doors or tablets that are to be reddened.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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  • Poppy is historically related to Egg.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, a mollifying poultice sometimes takes the yolk of a roasted egg, or fine flour, or poppy seed, or endive, added unto it for hard tumours and inflammations.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Nutmeg is used in Poppy.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, beaten nutmeg and poppy-seed are strewed on a warm double cloth for the forehead and temples — nutmeg and poppy seed share that overnight sleep dressing.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Elder is historically related to Poppy.

    In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, an anodyne fomentation boils white poppy-heads with elder flowers in water — the elder is boiled with that poppy.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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  • Starch is historically related to Poppy.

    In Culpeper English Physician, pulvis Haly compounds white starch with white poppy seeds into powder - starch is mixed with that poppy.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Milk is historically related to Poppy.

    In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, after corrosive poison any oil or milk may be given constantly, and if inflammation follows, warm poppy fomentations are applied where the pain is greatest.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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Hellenic religion

  • Poppy appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias notes poppy among Demeter and sanctuary plant attributes. A named poppy in that periegesis, not Dioscorides pharmacy alone and not a modern opium dump.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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Alchemy

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