As opium is the dried milky juice (latex) of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) refers.The scoring dried up by the immature, fresh fruit withered capsule of the opium poppy plant sap extracted one at a brown mass, the raw opium. Each capsule gives about 20-50 mg of raw opium. To obtain 1 kg of opium, one needs at least 20,000 capsules. This represents a 400 m2 large poppy field.Morphine (morphine, C17H19NO3) is an alkaloid extracted from opium. It is used in medicine as a powerful painkiller (analgesic) and is the strongest known natural analgesic.Morphine for the first time 1803 was isolated by the German pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner.Source: Super Fantastic
