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(poppy hypnosis)

Beautiful poppy

Category: Solanaceae, Herbs. Poppy is native to the mountains in the eastern Mediterranean and Egypt in Asia Minor. In ancient Egypt, poppies were called "divine flowers". In order to express their praise for the poppy, the ancient Greeks asked Gu Si, the goddess in charge of agriculture, to hold a poppy in her hand. In ancient Greek mythology, there are also stories of poppies. There is a demon god named Xupunos who is in charge of death. His son Maffez, with poppy fruit in his hand, guarded his sleeping father so as not to wake him.

Poppy is a herb, which is usually planted in autumn and harvested in summer. It is 4 feet to 5 feet high, with big smooth leaves and big gorgeous flowers in red, yellow, white, pink and purple colors. Under the beautiful flowers, there are opium drugs that bring great disasters to mankind. Opium is the juice of the immature fruit of poppy plant cut with a knife. After two or three days, this milky white latex gradually dried and its color changed from white to black. This is opium.

1624, at the dawn of the Ming dynasty, the Dutch introduced opium and tobacco to Chinese mainland, and opium spread.

For many years, people have tried their best to find drugs to relieve their physical and mental pain out of their desire for life, fear of death and pursuit of happiness. Opium, morphine, heroin, marijuana and cocaine have brought endless pain to human beings, but also short-lived hallucinations.

Fireworks, also known as poppies, belong to the genus Panicum of Papaveraceae. The white milk in the cut fruit is processed into drug opium. In order to control drugs, many countries or regions explicitly prohibit the unauthorized planting of this plant, which is absolutely necessary.

Nowadays, many people can't tell the difference between Bai Weiling beauty and fireworks, and often mistake Bai Weiling beauty for fireworks, causing some jokes or misunderstandings. In fact, it is easy to distinguish the two: the fireworks plant is hairless, but it has white powder, the upper leaves are oblong or oval, and the stems are supported by the leaves; However, the young corn poppy plants have no white powder, but are hairy, with pinnately divided leaves and no stalks at the base. As long as the above basic characteristics are mastered, it is not difficult to distinguish the two. Fireworks belong to drugs, but because of some special medical uses, they must be planted under the strict supervision of relevant government departments or public security organs in order to have medicinal value. As an individual, it is absolutely not allowed to plant large fireworks without permission. But it should be another matter for the corn poppy who enjoys flowers.