According to literature, in the Tang Dynasty, there was a record that India used opium to treat diseases. In the volume 10 of Pi Naje Miscellaneous Works translated by Master Xuanzang, it is recorded that the Indian king was ill and the Buddha instructed him to smoke medicine. The book even recorded the method of smoking medicine.
At first, with the introduction of poppy, poppy was cultivated as an ornamental flower in China from the late Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. It is recorded in Kaibao Materia Medica written by Liu Han in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Su Shi's poem said: "Taoist priests like to drink chicken water, and boys can fry poppy soup." At that time, people used poppy as Chinese medicine, and there was no record of smoking it. Xu Guangqi, a famous scientist in Ming Dynasty, still listed poppy and cockscomb as ornamental flowers.
But in the Ming dynasty, people began to understand the production method of opium and began to smoke opium. In the book Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen, a famous medical scientist, not only introduced the medicinal properties of opium poppy, but also explained the production method of opium.
Li Shizhen pointed out after textual research: "Opium was rarely heard before, but it is useful in modern times." Wu, a famous botanist in Qing Dynasty, said in Textual Research on Plant Scenery: "There was no record of poppy before the Tang Dynasty ..... Recently, a hibiscus has poisoned the world, which is no different from money grass."
Extended information (1) In slave society, people planted and collected poisonous plants for recreation, treatment of diseases or religious and tribal celebrations.
(2) In the 9th century, poppy millet was used as medicine and introduced to Chang 'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty.
(3) During the Qing Dynasty, western capitalist countries dumped Raven films into China, and a disastrous Raven film disaster came to China, which triggered two Raven film wars, 1840 and 1856.
(4) At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Jiaodong people's "smoking opium" was also widely popular, paying attention to "Jiaozhou Lantern, Shouzhou Bean, your cigarette stick, Liao Lanzhu's cigarette rod and Liu's carved cigarette case".
(5) 1806, German chemist F.W.A Zelti separated a white crystalline powder from crow slices, which was called "Murphy" after it was introduced into China.
(6) 1874, British chemist C. R. Wright first synthesized heroin as a white crystal from morphine and acetic anhydride.
(7) In recent years, under the leadership of the Party and the government, China has always adhered to both strike and prevention, focusing on prevention and treating both the symptoms and the root causes.
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