Paregoric has a wonderful smell.
Ipeca seems OK - til you swallow.

(My first job was an old fashioned drugstore/soda fountain in the 50's)

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all buy Paregoric OTC? There used to be a codeine syrup you only had to sign for in the ;80's---I forget what it was called.

I'd like to go back to the days when your local apothecary just handed the laudanum over with a wink and a smile.

Coda-Clear! I believe that was the syrup's name.

Here's the fella you want:
http://www.westseedfarm.com/index.ph...products_id=61

Papaver Somniferum, it's what's for dinner.

It's what's in the garden ... and in the pirohy (baked, not boiled), and in the poppyseed rolls, and in the ... damn, all those Ukrainian recipes make sense now! ;)

Yeah, well, I've eaten my fair share of poppy seeds- I need to know HOW to make the STUFF. I watched a program about how they make cocaine and I thought, 'who in the hell would've thought of doing all those steps???' but then I thought the same thing when I saw chocolate in the wild.

The stuff is right in the seeds - you get measurable levels of morphine in your blood after eating poppyseed-containing items. The acceptable levels of morphine on urine drug tests are set high enough to be above the maximum level you can get from eating poppyseed, and it's a significant level. No complicated or extensive process needed! Just eat that poppyseed roll ... :yum:

OK, either you two are feds trying to entrap someone or you are yanking our chain.

You know if you plant the seed, you have to be sure not to scratch the seed capsule while it is still green otherwise milky sticky sap will leak out, no a different kind; FOCUS! stay on task here, lift your minds out of the gutter, where were we? Oh yeah. Never scratch the green seed capsule, especially not with something serrated that would make a whole bunch of scratches at once. That would be really bad because then a whole lot of milky sap will leak out.

If that accidentally happens, don't worry, the sap will sort of clot, like blood does, and then it will turn brown. You may want to clean the brown stuff off so that the green capsule look nicer and more tidy for when they dry and you PUT THEM IN YOUR FLOWER ARRANGEMENT, right? that's the whole point. Dried flower arrangements.

So, after you've cleaned all the brown, resinous sticky icky gook off your nice pretty seed pods, you'll probably find that you have a whole bunch of the crap to get rid of. Probably best just to burn it because if you throw it in the trash it will just stick to everything and make a worse mess. Just be careful when you burn it, keep the fire small and in control.

Good luck and happy gardening. Here's an Ikebana flower arranging site with tips on arranging those dried seed pods:

http://www.ikebanahq.org/

LOL.


(please note, I spelled that backwards so as to attract little attention)

Damn, our cover is blown! In future I will also spell lol backwards so as not to attract so much attention.

Oh, and what makes you think we'd be trying to get milky, sticky substances out of something ... green? :eek:

(although since you were so generous with your explanation of how to obtain nice clean pods for dried flower arrangements, I have filed it away for future reference)

Foot: Weird, I cannot open the web page. It would say "Internet Explorer cannot open webpage." However, all other links I clicked on opens. So, it ain't my internet explorer that's having the problem.

I got it to open last night - but sadly, it did not have the detailed directions for dried flower preparation given by foot. I did find other links, but in the interest of keeping my professional license will leave them for people to google on their own.

I opened it with IE last night too, but can't open it now with IE, or Firefox.

Ho Ho Ho!

There are two types of people in this world; Size Queens and Liars

..and I don't see any horns.

that's unusual.