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Prickly poppy is a stout, prickly-stemmed annual to perennial 2' to 5' tall with pale yellowish sap, and alternate lanceolate to ovate leaves that are deeply-lobed, prickly, and at least in the upper clasping at the base.
It is often made into a tea and has been used as an anesthetic for surgery due to owning many of the same chemicals as its namesake, the poppy plant (papaver somniferum). It has been used to treat cancer, the common cold, fever, inflammation, and toothache in the past. This poppies chemical constituents include protopine, berberine, and several isoquinilines.
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