The Opium Poppy Plant’s Healing Touch
The psychological effects of the opium poppy plant were already known by the Ancient Sumerians 5000 years ago. Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher, botanist, and physician who lived in the 3rd century B.C. and was a disciple of Aristotle, was the first to describe the opium poppy plant sap, which he named opion (the Greek word…