Poppy Seed Tea

how to make poppy seed tea

When a patient was in agony, ancient Egyptian doctors would give them poppy seed tea and allow them to eat poppy seeds. Both morphine and codeine, two still-used painkillers, can be found in trace amounts in poppy seeds. To begin creating a highly potent opium tea, choose your dried poppy pods carefully, making sure they are of good quality and chemical-free. Once you have the dried, unwashed poppy heads, you must first remove the dust from the pods. You can brew the tea in a variety of ways, either by shattering the dried pod’s shell and removing the seeds to boil or by grinding the entire dried pod (stems and seed), then steeping it in water for a short while.

You can boil the poppy pods in order to speed up the extraction process and enhance the amount of morphine in the resulting poppy seed tea.

What makes poppy seed tea appealing?

The narcotic effects of unwashed poppy seeds are utilized as a drug. Some users boil the seeds to make a tea that they drink to supposedly relieve pain “naturally.” Some people make poppy seed tea from raw poppy seeds just to get “high.”