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PRICKLY POPPY (Argemone mexicana L.) +Activities (Prickly Poppy) — Analgesic (1; DEP; WBB); Antibacterial (1; WO2); Anti-HIV (1;
FNF; HAD); Antiinflammatory (1; TRA); Antiseptic (1; WO2); Antitrypanosomic (1; WO2);
Antivagal (1; WBB); Antiviral (1; WO2); Carcinogenic (1; WO2); Cardiodepressant (1; WO2);
Carminative (f; CRC); Contraceptive (f; CRC); Demulcent (f; CRC; DEP; IED); Depurative (f;
CRC; JFM); Diaphoretic (f; CRC; JFM; WBB); Diuretic (f; CRC; DEP; JFM; WBB); Edemagenic
(1; JFM); Emetic (f; CRC; IED; JFM; WBB); Embryotoxic (1; TRA); Emmenagogue (f; CRC;
JFM); Expectorant (f; CRC; DEP; IED; WBB); Fungicide (1; TRA; WBB); Glaucomagenic (f;
JFM); Hallucinogen (f; CRC); Hemostat (f; CRC); Hepatotoxic (1; TRA); Hypertensive (1; TRA);
Hypoglycemic (1; TRA); Hypotensive (1; TRA); Insecticide (1; TRA; WBB); Laxative (f; CRC;
IED; JFM; WBB); Narcotic (1; CRC; DEP; WBB; WO2); Orexigenic (f; CRC); Pectoral (f; JFM);
Poison (f; CRC); Respiradepressant (1; WBB); Respirastimulant (1; WBB); RT-Inhibitor (1; FNF;
HAD); Sedative (f; CRC; JFM; WBB); Spasmogenic (1; TRA); Stimulant (f; CRC); Tachycardic
(1; WBB); Termitifuge (f; WBB); Tonic (f; JFM); Uterotonic (1; TRA; WBB); Vasodilator (1;
TRA); Vulnerary (f; CRC; JFM).
Indications (Prickly Poppy) — Asthma (f; CRC; JFM); Bacteria (1; WO2); Bleeding (f; CRC);
Blennorrhagia (f; WBB); Cancer (f; IED; JFM; JLH); Cardiopathy (f; JFM); Catarrh (f; CRC);
Chancre (f; CRC; JLH); Childbirth (f; CRC); Cholecystosis (f; CRC); Cholera (f; WBB); Cold (f;
CRC; JFM); Colic (f; CRC; DEP; JFM; WBB); Conjunctivosis (f; CRC; JFM); Constipation (f;
CRC; IED; JFM; WBB); Corneal Opacity (f; DEP; JFM); Cough (f; JFM); Dentition (f; JFM);
Dermatosis (f; CRC; DEP; IED; WBB; WO2); Diarrhea (f; WBB); Dropsy (f; CRC; DEP);
Dysentery (f; DEP; WBB); Dysuria (f; CRC; JFM); Eczema (f; WBB); Enterosis (f; DEP); Epilepsy
(f; JFM); Eruption (f; CRC); Fever (f; CRC; JFM; WBB); Fungus (1; TRA; WBB); Gastrosis (f;
TRA); Gonorrhea (f; DEP; WBB); Guinea Worm (1; WO2); Headache (f; CRC; DEP); Heart (f;
CRC); Hepatosis (f; CRC; JFM); Herpes (f; CRC; DEP); High Blood Pressure (1; JFM; TRA);
HIV (1; FNF; HAD); Hyperglycemia (1; TRA); Infection (1; TRA; WBB); Inflammation (1; CRC;
TRA); Insomnia (f; CRC; JFM; WBB); Intoxication (f; CRC); Itch (f; CRC; DEP; IED; WBB);
Jaundice (f; DEP; JFM); Leishmaniasis (1; WO2); Low Blood Pressure (1; TRA); Malaria (1;
JFM); Mycosis (1; TRA; WBB); Nervousness (f; CRC; JFM; WBB); Ophthalmia (f; CRC; DEP;
JFM; WBB); Pain (1; DEP; WBB); Parasite (f; JFM); Pertussis (f; CRC; JFM); Pneumonia (f;
JFM); Rheumatism (f; CRC); Ringworm (f; JFM); Scabies (f; CRC; DEP; IED); Snakebite (f;
WBB); Sore (1; DEP; JFM; WO2); Splenomegaly (1; WO2); Splenosis (f; JFM); Strangury (f;
DEP); Syphilis (f; WO2); Tapeworm (f; DEP); Toothache (f; CRC); Trachoma (1; WO2); Tuber-
culosis (1; FNF; WBB); Virus (1; WO2); Wart (f; JFM; WBB); Water Retention (f; JFM); Wound
(1; JFM; WBB).
Dosages (Prickly Poppy) — 30 mimims oil (DEP); thimble full of seeds as emetic (DEP).
Contraindications, Interactions, and Side Effects (Prickly Poppy) — Ingestion of the seed oil
can cause anemia, diarrhea, dysentery, high-tension glaucoma, and vomiting due to the ‘carcino-
genic’ alkaloid, sanguinarine. Toxicity is due to interaction of sanguinarine and 11-oxo-triacon-
tanoic acid. Milk of cows fed prickly poppy can cause glaucoma (WO2). LD50 of argemone oil
= 9 ml/kg ipr mouse; sanguinarine 18 mg/kg (WBB). Seeds contain berberine, which may be
helpful in MDR-resistant tuberculosis (JAD).
PRINCE’S FEATHER, AMARANTH
(Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.) ++Synonyms: A. hybridus var. erythrostachyus Moq., A. hybridus var. hypochondriacus (L.) B. L. Rob.
Activities (Prince’s Feather) — Astringent (f; DEP; PH2).