Why is smoking opium addictive?

Great smoky tobacco is formed by drying and concentrating the emulsion of poppy fruit. Long-term use is easy to addiction, chronic poisoning, serious harm to the body, and has become the "opium ghost" that people often say.

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1, Introduction:

Opium (English? Opium? Arabic? Afyū), also known as opium, commonly known as opium, comes from the poppy plant capsule, and the main alkaloid is morphine. Opium is black or brown due to different producing areas; It smells of ammonia or old urine, bitter and strong. Raw opium can be cooked and fermented to make refined opium, which is brown or golden yellow. Smoking gives off a sweet smell. Opium was originally used as medicine, but it is still used as medicine at present, such as opium powder, tablets, compound platycodon grandiflorum powder, stone-removing powder, Koga tablets and so on. , mainly used for relieving cough and diarrhea. 1865438+On August 5, 2003, opium trafficking was strictly prohibited in China.

2. Plant morphology

Opium is 1 or 2 years poppy. Gundam 1- 1.5m, flowering in summer, red, purple or white. Capsule is spherical or oval. The seeds are small and numerous. Originated in Europe. Cut the immature fruit of poppy with a sharp knife, scrape it off after the flowing slurry solidifies slightly, and dry it in the shade to become raw opium. Opium contains two main alkaloids: benzyl isoquinoline and phenanthrene. The former is mainly papaverine; The latter includes morphine, codeine and thebaine, accounting for about 10% of impure opium. Most of the pharmacological effects of opium are caused by its main component morphine.

Opium is a primary drug, and it is either black sea or brown because of its origin. It has a strong smell, ammonia or old urine, which is disgusting. Taste, generally after cooking and fermentation into cooked opium for human consumption, made into strips or cakes. At this time, it is brown or golden yellow, and it will have a sweet smell when smoked. Poppy, regarded by archaeologists as a detached plant symbolizing strength, was accidentally discovered in the middle reaches of the mountains on the east coast of the Mediterranean in Neolithic age. Poppy cultivation began in Asia Minor and spread in this ancient world for a long time. Opium has been extracted from poppy plants for more than 6000 years.