Crude drug sample data base
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Crude drug name | Market name | Khashkash |
|---|---|---|
| Urudu name | Khashkhash | |
| Arabic name / Persian name | Bazr al-khashkash / Tukhm e-koknar | |
| English name | Poppy seeds | |
| Original plant name | Papaver somniferum Linn., Poppy seeds | |
| Family name | Papaveraceae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | seed |
| Collection information | Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Karachi [Karachi], Sind , Amjad Unani Medicine (Pvt.) Ltd. | |
| Collection date | 1994/1/22 | |
| Collector | Tsuneo Namba | |
| Identifier | Javed Ahmad | |
| Description | Features: An annual herb with milky juice. Capsules stalked and globose; seeds many, white and minute. | |
| TMPW No. | 14483 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Urudu name, English name | Khashkhash, Poppy seeds | |||
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| Arabic name / Persian name | Bazr al-khashkash / Tukhm e-koknar | ||||
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| Original plant name | Papaver somniferum Linn. | ||||
| Family name | Papaveraceae | ||||
| Used part | Seeds | ||||
| Distribution area | A herb native to W. Asia, now widely cultivated. Commercial products come in the name of Benares opium obtained from Ghazipur; Patna, Malwa (Central India), Western India and Rajasthan. Opium is grown in many parts of the world and chiefly in Turkey, Persia, China, Egypt, Afghanistan and Southeastern Europe. | ||||
| Description | There are various kinds of poppy seeds, (a) garden poppy, (b) wild poppy, (c) black poppy and (d) horned poppy. The latter is also called al-bhahri having curved seeds. The best and safest kind of poppy is the white poppy. | ||||
| Function and properties | Swellings, Head, Chest, Food, Excretion. The seeds have oily content, sedative, tonic to brain, aperient for chest, astringent, retentive of semen and fat producing. | ||||
| Specific actions | Sedative and tonic to brain. | ||||
| Frequency in use | Cultivated widely. | ||||
| Common uses | Swellings: All kinds of poppy, except horned poppy, are painted on erysipelas. Head: Poppy seeds are somniferous and anaesthetic. It induces sleep even when used as a suppository. It stops catarrh. It is applied as plaster on the forehead of patients of insomnia. When its decoction is instilled in the severely aching ear, it relieves of the pain. Chest: Poppy seeds are useful in hot cough, chest congestion and haemoptysis/hemoptysis. All the seeds of poppy are expectorant. Food: All kinds of poppy are cooling and generally they have no nutrition value. The seeds are demulcent and mildly astringent. A kind of eadule (harirah) is prepared and administered for producing fat in the body and for strength giving to brain. Excretion: White poppy stops chronic diarrhoea/diarrhea. Its seeds, if taken orally with honey water, cause relaxation of the bowels. The seeds of garden poppy, if taken with honey, promote semen production. | ||||
| Side effect | Frequent use of seeds causes dryness of the mouth and throat, lessening the secretion of the stomach and thus impair appetite, diminishes the secretion of bile and may cause constipation, decreases quantity of urine, increases heart beat and arterial action. | ||||
| Medical system | Unani | ||||
| Traditional concept | Temperament | It is cold and dry in the second degree (garden poppy). The black poppy is cold and dry in the third degree (Avicenna). | |||
| Drug effect | Please see as above. | ||||
| Comments | It has been included in the list of drugs used both in Unani and Ayurvedic Systems of Medicine. | ||||
| Dosage | 5gm. (seeds). | ||||
| Substitute | Tukhum e-kahu (Lactuca serriola Linn.), wild variety. | ||||
| Corrigent (corrective) | Badiyan (Foeniculum vulgare Linn.) | ||||
| Important compound preparations | Tiryaq Nazla, Labub Saghir and La`ooq Sapistan. | ||||
| References | Reference book Tips！ | Indian Materia Medica, Vols. 1-2, 1976 (Repr. 1989). Nadkarni, A.K., Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Bombay Vol. 1, pp 901-922. Makhzanul-Mufradat (Khawasul Adviyah), Hakeem Kabiruddin, Daftar Al-Masih, Qarol Bagh, Delhi. pp 272-273. A Survey of Drugs, 1961 (2nd edi.). Wahid, A. K. and Siddiqui, H. H. Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research, Delhi. pp 19-30. Al-Qanun Fil-Tibb. Avicenna. (English translation of the critical Arabic text), Book 2, 1998. Hameed, H. A. (editor), Dept. of Islamic Studies, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi. pp 193-195. Al-Jamili Mufradt Al Adwiya Wal Aghziya (1197-1248 A.D.). Ibn al-Baytar. Vols. 1-3, 1985-1999. Central council for Research in Unani Medicine, Janakpuri, New Delhi. Vol. 2, pp 125-127. Hamdard Pharmcopoeia of Eastern medicine, 1969. Said, H. M. (editor), The Times Press, Sadar Karachi. p 78, 243, 247-248. Indusyunic Medicine, 1997. Usmanghani, K., Saeed, A. and Alam, M. T. Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi. pp 325-326. Unani Adwiyah Mufradah, 1984. Ali, Saifuddin, A. (3rd edi.). Taraqi-e-Urdu Bureau, R. K. Puram, New Delhi. pp 148-149. Dictionary of Economic Plants in India, 1996 (2nd Rep.). Singh, U; Wadhwani, A. M. and Johri B.M. Indian council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. p 164. | |||
| Remarks | The drug is described by all Unani physicians. | ||||
| Last renewal date | 2024/02/27 | ||||
