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Papaver rhoeas

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 6 constituent measurements and 3 adverse-effect records for Papaver rhoeas. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Papaver rhoeas L.

6Constituent measurements

3Safety records

5Cited sources

11Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 11 licensed products naming Papaver rhoeas as a medicinal ingredient, matched on the exact Latin binomial. A licence records that a product met the regulator's requirements for sale in Canada. It is not evidence that the product works.

Extract types on licence

Source material stated

Flower
Flowers
Petal

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

Target tissues

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

Substance	Plant part	Preparation	Concentration	Analytical method	Source
Alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Live plants	Solvent extraction	0.046 Percent	IR and Raman Spectroscopy	No resolvable identifier
Coptisine	Live plants	Solvent extraction	0.004 Percent	IR and Raman Spectroscopy	No resolvable identifier
Isorheagenine	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	0.024 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Rhoeadine	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	0.027 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Rhoeadine	Live plants	Solvent extraction	0.027 Percent	IR and Raman Spectroscopy	No resolvable identifier

Recorded adverse effects

Adverse effects reported in the source literature, most often in animal or laboratory models at a stated preparation and dose.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Neurotoxicity	Neurologic: central nervous system	Unspecified	Thermal treatment (heating for preservation)	Human (as organism)	Case report	Resolve DOI
Neurotoxicity	Neurologic: central nervous system	Unspecified	Thermal treatment (heating for preservation)	Human (as organism)	Case report	Resolve DOI
Hepatotoxicity	Liver	Seed	—	Human (as organism)	Case report	No resolvable identifier

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

Slavik, Jiri. Alkaloids of the Papaveraceae. Part LXVI. Characterization of alkaloids from the roots of Papaver rhoeas L. Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, 1978, p. 316-319.
Sariyar, Gunay., Mat, Afife., Unsal, Caglayan., Ozhatay, Neriman. Biodiversity in the alkaloids of annual Papaver species of Turkish origin. Acta pharmaceutica turcica, 2002, p. 159-168.
Gonullu, Hayriye., Karadas, Sevdegul., Dulger, Ahmet Cumhur., Ebinc, Senar. Hepatotoxicity associated with the ingestion of Papaver Rhoease. JOURNAL OF THE PAKISTAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 2014, vol. 64, no. 10, p. 1189-1190.
Gunaydin, Yahya Kemal., Dundar, Zerrin Defne., Cekmen, Bora., Akilli, Nazire Belgin., Koylu, Ramazan., Cander, Basar. Intoxication due to Papaver rhoeas (Corn Poppy): Five Case Reports.. Case reports in medicine, 2015, vol. 2015, p. 321360-321360. DOI
Slavik, Jiri., Slavikova, Leonora., Bochorakova, Jitka. Alkaloids of the Papaveraceae. Part LXXXVIII. Alkaloids from Papaver rhoeas var. chelidonioides O. Kuntze, P. confine Jord., and P. dubium L. Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, 1989, p. 1118-1125.

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A constituent measurement is a fact about material at a stated preparation, not a statement about what that material does in a person. An adverse-effect or genotoxicity record is an observation reported in a source, most often in an animal or laboratory model. Neither is a Metatron Health conclusion about causality, human risk or benefit, and the absence of a record is not proof that a preparation is safe. Nothing here is diagnosis, prescribing or individual medical care.

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