POPPY Powder

Certified Organic Poppy is commonly used to promote sleep and general relaxation. The indigenous POPPY POWDER, Indians used this poppy as both a source of food and medicine. Several groups boiled the plant, or roasted it on hot stones, to eat as a green. The Costanoan Indians rubbed a decoction of the flowers in the hair to kill lice; the Indians of Mendocino County used a poultice of fresh root for toothaches and a topically applied extract for headaches and sores; and Cahuilla women used the pollen as a cosmetic and the whole plant as a sedative for babies. Gentle in effect, California poppy is used to soothe minor aches and pains.  poppy POWDER is member of the poppy family and somewhat distantly related to the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). While it does contain some sedative alkaloids, it contains no real “opium.”