Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-642.17.13
Argemone mexicana
English: Prickly poppy; Mexican poppy; Mexican prickly poppy; Cardo; Cardosanto.
Dutch: Mexicaanse papaver.
Botany: juice of the plant is acrid; dried appearance of Gambogia.
Content: alkaloids sanguinarine, dihydrosanguinarine; isoquinoline alkaloids, dehydrocorydalmine, jatrorrhizine, columbamine, oxyberberine; berberine; protopine.
