After smoking opium, it can initially cause euphoria, inattention and dreaminess, leading to high psychological and physical dependence. After long-term use, it will cause thirst for drugs, anxiety, tears, sweating, runny nose, irritability and so on.
Excessive use can lead to acute poisoning, with symptoms including coma, respiratory depression, hypotension, severe respiratory depression and death. Long-term use will also destroy the endocrine and immune system functions and greatly reduce the resistance of drug addicts.
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The origin of the name
Poppy, the mother of opium, was originally produced in southern Europe and Asia Minor. Around the fifth century BC, the Greeks pressed the flowers or fruits of poppy into medicine.
At the beginning of the 6th century, Arabs spread poppy to Persia, and Persians changed the sound of "ping" to "pian" and called it "opium".
In the 7th and 8th centuries, opium poppy was introduced to China from India and other places, and China people changed the sound of "A" to "crow". However, at that time, it was more called "Ther iaca (also known as THERIACA)".
Opium precursors are produced from opium poppy, which is a biennial plant of Papaveraceae 1 or. Gundam 1- 1.5m, with more than 250 species belonging to 28 genera, mainly grows in almost all temperate and subtropical regions in the northern hemisphere. Summer flowers, red, purple or white.
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Baidu encyclopedia-opium