Question

From which part of plant opium is obtained?
A. New leaves
B. Roots
C. Unripe capsule
D. Seeds

Answer 1

Hint: Opium is a narcotic substance. It is used as drugs. It contains many alkaloids like morphine. Opium is used for commercial purposes and it is very expensive. It has also many medicinal uses because it is sedative, antispasmodic, hypnotic, and analgesic. Alkaloids that are found in opium
affects the cerebrospinal nervous system of humans.

Complete step by step answer: 1. Opium is a drug and it contains 25 types of alkaloids like codamine, narcine, morphine, and papaverine, etc.
2. Opium is obtained from the plant Papaver somniferum. This plant produces fruit capsules that are
large, round-shaped, and stalked.
3. When these capsules are unripe, they secrete latex. This latex is when dried it is a pure form of opium.
This is a brown or black smelly substance. From dried latex drugs are obtained. Seeds of this plant
are small, bean-shaped oily, and lack alkaloids, these seeds are called a post.
4. This drug is mainly used as medicine but often misused. Alkaloids obtained from opium are used
in coughing (codeine), asthma (noscapine), and analgesic (morphine) and in heart disease
(papaverine). Also, used in insomnia, diarrhoea, vomiting, and piles.
5. Opium is also called black gold. It causes drug addiction. In villages, people use this regularly.
Morphine is 80% more narcotic than other drugs.
Hence, the correct answer is Option C

Note: Classification
Class – Dicotyledonae
Order – Papaverales
Family – Papaveraceae
Genus – Papaver
Species – Papaver somniferum
Papaver somniferum is an annual herb. It is unbranched 1 to 3 feet long. It produces white and
purple flowers. Opium is obtained from white-flowered plants.