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| quote  = Sertürner isolated her in 1804 and gave her the name of the god of sleep. She is the molecule that proved alkaloids existed; she is the prototype of every opioid that came after; she is the standard the modern pharmacopeia uses to measure the analgesic potency of newer cousins. Opium remembered itself in her, and the rest of the field is footnote.
| quote  = Opium is the archetypal medicine, and morphine is its essence. Morphine is the most powerful naturally occurring analgesic in the world, and the synthetics use opium as their precursor.
| volume = Poeia
| volume = Poeia
| voice  = curated paraphrase — replace with verbatim passage
| page  = 123
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Revision as of 22:16, 15 May 2026

Opioid, Analgesic
Morphine

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Summary
Classes
Opioid, Analgesic
Common uses
Pharmacy
Pharmacology
Purported mechanism
Mu-opioid receptor agonist


Pendell's corner
Opium is the archetypal medicine, and morphine is its essence. Morphine is the most powerful naturally occurring analgesic in the world, and the synthetics use opium as their precursor.
— Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Poeia, p. 123