Opium poppy

Sea of Poppies published in 2008 looks back at the colonial period to show the social, cultural, economic and ecological devastation done by European intervention in South Asia. Ghosh states that the impelling policies of colonial powers alter the landscapes of the annexed bioregions and economically plunder the communities. The research paper focuses on Ghosh’s concern over the commodification of nature at the hands of British colonialists. Sea of Poppies is an account of the imposed opium monoculture

bring forgetfulness of every sorrow." -The Odyssey, Homer (Ninth century B.C.) Opium is one of the greatest discoveries in the field of medicine the world has ever come across. While its use dates to about 2100/3000 BC in Sumerian, the educated and controlled use of the drug started in 1800s with the isolation of Morphine by Serturner. He named it Morphine after the Greek God of dreams, Morpheus. Arab traders brought Opium and the recipe for its medical use to India and China in eight century AD and

Opium is made from the opium poppy. It is specifically made from the white substance found in the poppies. Then the liquid is dried to become what we know as Opium. It is used to make many other drugs including heroin. Opium is also known as Big O and joy plant. It is categorized as a schedule two drug which means it is pretty easy to get addicted too. The ways of taking Opium include through the mouth by either smoking it or taking a pill, and/or injecting it through the skin. Opium has many short

The presence-absence of opium in the ancient Near East and Mesopotamia is a topic debated for almost a century. In 1928 Charles Terry and Nildred Pellens, following an interpretation of R. Doughert started the debate trying to identify opium in Sumerian Cuneiform word hul-gil, in which hul would mean opium and gil, "joy". In 1949 Reginald Campbell Thompson, in an extensive paper on Assyrian botany, recognized opium in another Sumerian term, ú-nam-ti- (or ú-nam-til-la), literally "the plant of life"

emergency care. Historical Overview of Opioids The term Opioid is derived from the opium poppy. It is an annual herb that contains about eight capsules with different color flowers. The seeds are cut out from the stem and used for different purposes. Descriptions from the Egyptians shows the opium seeds to be used to prevent excessive crying while the Greeks used it for a sleep inducing substance. (Khademi, 2015, p.870) Opium is the starting material for an array of medications. It is synthesized and then

Opium always existed for centuries and it has been used in its raw form both medicinal and for pleasure. The origin of opium is in the Middle Eastern, when someone discovered its yearlong life, papaya somniferum produced a substance that, when eaten, eased pain and suffering (Hart, 297). The effects of opium has a huge reaction that its an epidemic, for causing many people to become addicted. Concerning that regulations on the production and administration of opium is necessary, in order to stop

Medicine”, named Hippocrates learns about the opium poppy plant. He notices that it is useful to treating internal diseases, for women and epidemics. Alexander the Great introduces the opium to the people of Persia and India around 330 B.C. Opium is now used by Arabs, Greeks, and Romans as a sedative and soporific. 400 A.D., opium thebaicum, from the Egyptian fields at Thebes, is first introduced to China by Arab traders. For a couple of hundreds of years opium had vanished from all the records. In 1500

History of Opium Opium is a narcotic drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, Pa paver somniferum, a plant probably indigenous in the south of Europe and western Asia, but now so widely cultivated that its original habitat is uncertain. The medicinal properties of the juice have been recognized from a very early period. It was known to Theophrastus and appears in his time to have consisted of an extract of the whole plant, since Dioscorides, about A.D. 77, draws

ABSTRACT This paper titled, “DEETI - the metaphor in Amitav Ghosh’s The Sea of Poppies”, focuses on how the author, Amitav Ghosh, uses the character Deeti as a metaphor. Amitav Ghosh is a Serious historical and Fictional writer born in Calcutta in a Bengali family. His Father, Shailendra Chandra Ghosh a Military officer. Wife Deborah Baker, The author of Laura Riding biography In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding (1993) and a senior editor at Little, Brown and Company. Ghosh became a faculty at

today. Opium has been been around forever, but up until a century ago, it was seen as a gift from God. Used by sixteenth-century physicians and prescribed to patients, physicians praised that opium “...took away grief, fear, and anxiety”(Carnwath and Smith 5) Regrettably, as doctors consistently prescribed the drug, it became popular as an alternative for smoking cocaine, and heroin spread throughout America in the 1920s and 1930s (Courtwright 85). Opium