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Wild Lettuce, taxonomic name Lactuca virosa, is a tall, leafed plant with small intense yellow flowers.It looks similar to prickly lettuce, with a couple of distinctions. The leaves and stems are less spiny, and expand closer together. A member of the lettuce family members, wild lettuce expands wild in North America and also Europe. Wild Lettuce is additionally called bitter lettuce, laitue vireuse, opium lettuce, and so. It is known for having mild sedative and pain eliminating residential or commercial properties, because of a milklike material called lactucarium which is discovered in the fallen leaves as well as stem of the plant. The effects of lactucarium are taken into consideration to be similar to opium, though the compound has no real opiates. These impacts gained wild lettuce the typical name of opium lettuce. Wild lettuce was widely utilized in the 19th century as an alternative to opium. In was consisted of in the materia medica for a number of years. In the 1970s, the herb gained appeal as both a leisure herb and an organic treatment. It has actually been used to treat a variety of ailments including asthma, coughing, insomnia, migraines, discomfort, sore muscles as well as menstruation troubles. In the past, Wild Lettuce has been gotten ready for usage in a variety of means. The majority of frequently, the leaves as well as stems would certainly be dried and prepared as a tisane laitue. Other times, the plant would certainly be simmered in a pot with water and also sugar, and after that decreased to develop a thick syrup. Bitter, the impacts of these preparations verified rather effective. While these are the two most standard ways of preparing Wild Lettuce for usage, there are a number of even more modern-day alternatives. Wild Lettuce can utilized to make tea, to get the benefits of the herb while lowering the amount of smoke in your lungs. It can also be smoked or utilized in a vaporizer. The herb can be bought in a dried out cut blend, as a powder, or as a resin made from the collected milk or sap of the plant. A herbal remove is likewise offered. Each item of Wild Lettuce includes lactucarium, though it is much more focused in the resin.