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Wild lettuce 20 grams: dried Lactuca virosaCut into a stem of this plant and a milky white latex seeps out, browning in the air and drying to a resinous lump. Apothecaries called that lactucarium. Nineteenth century physicians turned to it when opium could not be obtained, and the herb drew fresh attention in 1970s America. Among the compounds described in the species are lactucin and lactucopicrin, alongside flavonoids and coumarins lactucin was isolated in 1911 by the Pharmaceutical Society...
Wild lettuce 20 grams: dried Lactuca virosaCut into a stem of this plant and a milky white latex seeps out, browning in the air and drying to a resinous lump. Apothecaries called that lactucarium. Nineteenth century physicians turned to it when opium could not be obtained, and the herb drew fresh attention in 1970s America. Among the compounds described in the species are lactucin and lactucopicrin, alongside flavonoids and coumarins lactucin was isolated in 1911 by the Pharmaceutical Society...
