Opium
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opium
Laudanum, Dropizol
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Summary
Common uses
Pain, cough, disquiet
Pharmacy
Pharmacology
Purported mechanism
µ-opioid agonism
“Pendell's corner
The milk of the unripe pod is the milk of paradise — and the milk of the sleep that knows you. From De Quincey to Coleridge, from the Sumerian tablet that called her hul gil, the joy plant, opium has been the longest conversation Western literature has held with a single Ally. There is no way to write honestly about her without also writing about the closing of the door.
— Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Poeia
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