Description
Sweet Poppy High-Quality Maceration Essential Oil
Papaver somniferum
5ml
Blooming Flowers and Seeds
From Egypt/Israel
LIMITED SUPPLY
Also Known as Aratpa-pal and Sweet Opium Poppy. This oil has a very subtle scent that is sweet powdery with grassy green notes and is colorless. It can oxidize very easily so should be stored in the refrigerator.
Please note that Poppy seeds and open blooming poppy flowers this oil do not contain opium. Made with Red Poppy Flowers infused into Poppy Seed Oil Opium comes from poppy latex, which is a milky white liquid in the poppy pod. No pods are used to make this Maceration essential oil.
Poppy Seed has moisturizing and hydrating properties. It has similar properties to Hemp Essential Oil without side effects and is ideal for use in skin creams and balms.
Sweet Poppy has been actively collected since approximately 3400 BC. The upper Asian belt of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Northern India, and Myanmar still account for the world’s largest supply of Opium for medical use.
In the Middle East, Sweet Poppy was used by the Assyrians, who also collected poppy juice in the morning after scoring the pods with an iron scoop; they called the juice Aratpa-pal, possibly the roots of Papaver. Opium production continued under the Babylonians, Egyptians, and Ancient Israel.
Sweet Poppies started appearing in the Southern coastal plains of Israel, near Ashkelon and Gaza, in parallel with Philistine settlement in that area. Sweet Poppy was traded from Egypt by the Phoenicians and Minoans to destinations around the Mediterranean Sea, including Greece, Carthage, and Europe.
Rare Sweet Poppy Essential Oil has been traditionally been used to relax and improve muscle tone, which makes them potentially useful in the treatment of diarrhea and abdominal cramps. Excellent for pain and aches of muscles and joints.
