Lactucarium

Lettuce contains 'lactucarium' which makes you feel sleepy! ❋ Cardamom (2009)

Samorini tested the phytochemicals present in the latex, or lactucarium, with a series of experiments, and discovered that lettuce has a double, opposite effect, depending on the dose. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Subsequently, sales fell, some suppliers of real lactucarium went out of business, and the fad all but disappeared. ❋ Unknown (1992)

Most of these newer brands were made from ordinary garden lettuce, which lacked the intoxicating lactucarium. ❋ Unknown (1992)

Although lactucarium is structurally unrelated to the opiates, it will still soothe irritating cough, ease minor pains, and help induce sleep, hence its more common name of 'lettuce opium.' ❋ Unknown (1992)

A similar _lactucarium_, got from the dried milk of the cultivated garden Lettuce, is so mild a sedative as to be suitable for restless infants; and two grains thereof may be safely given to a young child for soothing it to sleep. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

When the milky juice has been thickened (_lactucarium_), it is sometimes used as ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)

Orfila found the extract equal in power and energy to that of lactucarium. ❋ Unknown (1863)

Among the narcotics, which include opium and its derivatives, there is lactucarium, the smokable extract derived from Lactuca Virosa. " ❋ Unknown (1992)

"Consider the case of lactucarium, which never caught on as a modern opium substitute because either so mild or so inconsistent in quality that people thought it was a fake. ❋ Unknown (1992)

While lactucarium is still available, heroin users are not rushing to buy it and probably never will: it's simply too weak. " ❋ Unknown (1992)