[Sca-cooks] poppyseeds?

[Olwen the Odd]

> >My bet that was referring to the sap.  In the new world, at least, the 
>home
> >remedy opiate was/is prickly lettuce.  I recall getting it as a child 
>when
>I
> >broke my collar bone.
> >Olwen
>
>I would think that it refers to the forerunner of laudanum (tincture of
>opium or opium dissolved in alcohol), opium dissolved in wine, hence a
>"drowsy syrup."  Raw opium is a gum
>
>Bear

Pickly lettuce is also known as opium weed.  The sap is collected in spring, 
the leaves are used in summer.  It grows wild from Canada to the south on 
the east coast and some in the west.  
http://www.scienceviews.com/plants/pricklylettuce.html

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