"What are the Functions and Hazards of Poppy Shells?"
Poppy shell has the effect of relieving cough, pain, and diarrhea. Some medications contain poppy shell ingredients. Morphine has a significant analgesic effect, but if taken in large quantities for a long time, it will harm the body. It mainly has adverse effects on the vasomotor center and the neural center, and may even lead to chronic poisoning.
1. Poppy shell contains morphine and caffeine, which can inhibit sensory nerves to achieve pain relief. It can be used to treat stomach pain and pain caused by cancer, but it is easy to become addictive.
2. The morphine component in poppy shell also has sedative, hypnotic, and tranquilizing effects. It can be used to treat anxiety, tension, fear, insomnia, and dreams.
3. Poppy shell has the effect of enhancing the tension of gastrointestinal sphincters, has anti-diarrheal effects, and can also reduce the secretion of digestive juices, which can be used to treat symptoms such as prolonged diarrhea and prolonged dysentery.
1. Poppy shell inhibits the respiratory center and can cause neonatal asphyxia through the placenta and breast milk.
2. Poppy shell can increase intracranial pressure. Adverse reactions after application include headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, constipation, urgency with difficulty urinating, sweating, biliary colic, etc. However, the most dangerous is respiratory depression. Respiratory center paralysis is the direct cause of death from morphine poisoning.
3. Chronic poisoning may manifest as constipation, anorexia, premature aging, impotence, emaciation, anemia, etc. Generally, there is no suppression of breathing, and it generally does not affect work ability and memory.
