Get Opium for the Masses: Harvesting Nature's Best Pain PDF

"Contrary to normal trust, there isn't any federal legislations opposed to growing to be P. somniferum."—Martha Stewart Living

"Regarded as 'God's personal medicine,' arrangements of opium have been as universal within the Victorian drugs cupboard as aspirin is in ours. As past due as 1915, pamphlets issued via the U.S. division of Agriculture have been nonetheless pointing out opium poppies as a great funds crop for northern farmers. good into this century, Russian, Greek, and Arab immigrants in the United States have used poppy-head tea as a delicate sedative and a treatment for complications, muscle discomfort, cough, and diarrhea. through the Civil conflict, gardeners within the South have been inspired to plant opium for the conflict attempt, on the way to confirm a offer of painkillers for the accomplice military. What Hogshire has performed is to excavate this vernacular wisdom after which submit it to the world—in how-to shape, with recipes."— Michael Pollan

First released fifteen years in the past, Opium for the Masses immediately turned a countrywide phenomenon. Michael Pollan wrote a long characteristic ("Opium, made easy") approximately Jim Hogshire in Harper’s Magazine, surprised that the typical plant, P. somniferum, or opium poppies, which grows wild in lots of states and is out there at crafts and pastime shops and nurseries, may be made right into a drinkable tea that acts in a fashion just like codeine or Vicodin.

With Opium for the Masses as their consultant, american citizens can find out how to complement their very own drugs chest with ordinary and criminal discomfort medication, with out high priced and hard journeys to the surgeon and pharmacy.