Hi all! Not sure whether this fits here, but I thought it may as well go here for now, mods move at your discretion.
Was reading some science papers dealing with poppy seeds, and came across an interesting one:
Morphine and codeine in poppy seed
Michael D. Grove, Gayland F. Spencer, Marjorie V. Wakeman, Harvey L. Tookey
J. Agric. Food Chem.; 1976; 24(4); 896-897.
First Page Full: PDF (229k)
Basically, they list an extraction method to remove the surface alkaloids present in commercial poppy seeds, which GCMS revealed to be comprised of Morphine and Methylmorphine (Codeine).
Their method was as follows (paraphrased, just to give a general overview):
- Wash with a pH 2 solution of water and HCl
- Wash with distilled H20
- The water washes were freeze-dried, redissolved in
H2O (50 ml), and made alkaline to pH 8.5 with NH40H
- The alkaloids were then finally extracted using a chloroform-isopropanol mixture (3:1)
They then proceeded to use GCMS to work out how much alkaloid was present, etc.
Now, I was wondering whether this is actually a viable method of extracting the alkaloids from the poppy seeds, as opposed to the so-called "tea"?
Was reading some science papers dealing with poppy seeds, and came across an interesting one:
Morphine and codeine in poppy seed
Michael D. Grove, Gayland F. Spencer, Marjorie V. Wakeman, Harvey L. Tookey
J. Agric. Food Chem.; 1976; 24(4); 896-897.
First Page Full: PDF (229k)
Basically, they list an extraction method to remove the surface alkaloids present in commercial poppy seeds, which GCMS revealed to be comprised of Morphine and Methylmorphine (Codeine).
Their method was as follows (paraphrased, just to give a general overview):
- Wash with a pH 2 solution of water and HCl
- Wash with distilled H20
- The water washes were freeze-dried, redissolved in
H2O (50 ml), and made alkaline to pH 8.5 with NH40H
- The alkaloids were then finally extracted using a chloroform-isopropanol mixture (3:1)
They then proceeded to use GCMS to work out how much alkaloid was present, etc.
Now, I was wondering whether this is actually a viable method of extracting the alkaloids from the poppy seeds, as opposed to the so-called "tea"?