Lettuce Opium

Silver Surfer · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:11 am Post subject: Lettuce Opium

A safe Non-precription pain reliever.

Lettuce tea has long been known as a soother of pain and a sleep inducer.

Its opiate-like action is due to a bitter white juice, which exudes from the plant when it is cut or broken.

All lettuces posses some of this narcotic juice, wild lettuce having the most, followed by prickly lettuce, then garden lettuce.

The simplest way to obtain lettuce's opiate action for those troubled with insomnia, is to eat some lettuce last thing at night, just before bed.

It helped soldiers in battle to sleep better.

An old-fashioned remedy for sleeplessness is lettuce tea.
Two or three of the outer leaves, which contain 30 percent more nutrients than the inner leaves, are washed thoroughly, then simmered for 20 minutes in one-half pint of water.
This is strained, and drunk hot just before bedtime.

During World War 2, when codeine was in short supply, doctors turned to the bitter juice in lettuce, called then, lettuce opium...for its sedative and cough suppresent properties similar to codeine and morphine, only milder.

Extracts of lettuce juice were given to soldiers who had respiratory problems, or were in need of sleep and pain relieve., and it worked quite well.

FFT · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject:

The lactucin is primarily in the stem, not the leaves. Which is why eating a salad doesn't give most people a euphoric effect.

Silver Surfer · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject:

luvnlife · Lion King Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 1133 Location: US

Sooo...

If you want to get a lettuce buzz, best thing to do is make a lettuce cocktail with the stem and outer leaves, huh?

Luv Very Happy

Silver Surfer · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject:

ChristianWoman1 · Fierce Poodle Joined: 22 May 2008 Posts: 286

interesting...I always eat a salad before bed if I"m hungry Very Happy

I'll have to try and make the tea and see if it helps with coughs.

Key of Twilight · Big Hamster Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 90

I am not completely sure whether or not it was on purpose, but this thread is one of the funniest things I have read in a while! Haha the idea of people hopping up on lettuce tea cracks me up Laughing

Silver Surfer · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:17 am Post subject: