Field poppy – Papaver rhoeas (and similar species)

Cold in the 4.th degree and moderately moist, the field poppy is cooling, facilitates sleeping, softens the stools, relieves coughing, is choleretic, stimulates the expulsion of Yellow Bile and of any excess of liver heat, possibly compensating overheated Yellow Bile [Giannelli].

 

Sources

[Giannelli] Luigi Giannelli, “Medicina Tradizionale Mediterranea”, Ed. Tecniche Nuove