Indian Medicinal Plants
by Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar | 1918
A comprehensive work on Indian Botany including plant synonyms in various languages, habitat description and uses in traditional medicine, such as Ayurveda....
59. Papaver dubium Linn,
The medicinal plant Papaver dubium is a member of the Papaveraceae (poppy) family. This page includes its habitat, botanical descption, medicinal uses (eg., Ayurveda), chemical constituents and history of use in modern and ancient India.
Index in Flora of British India (Hooker): 1. 117.
Habitat:—Western Himalaya, from Garhwal to Hazara, in cornfields. Simla 4,000-7,000 ft., W. Asia, Europe.
Botanical description:—It resembles Papaver rhoeas, but often glabrous, and leaf segments usually narrower; hairs of scape appressed.
Petals: scarlet, in unequal pairs.
Capsule: sessile.
An alkaloid has been extracted from it.
By extraction of the seed capsules of Papaver dubium with light petroleum, a previously unknown alkaloid, aporeine, is obtained.