Talk:Lactuca virosa/Archive 1

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Does anyone know if Linnaeus actually first described L. virosa, as it now says on the page's taxobox? MrPMonday 01:13, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

question??
i have been reading in regards to increasing lactation/milk production in nursing mothers and it was read that taking lactuca virosa with fennel would do so? does any one know about this or how one would take it? thanks

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.159.81.46 (talk) 20:30, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Side effects
I have read in several places that a side effect of Lactuca virosa is decreased libido - I figure this might be a means of regulating potential libido differences which often cause marital stress - but this would clearly depend on the regularity of dosage and period of the effects (if any). Worrying thing is frequent references to the potential dangers of this plant which appear to go as far as coma and death! Any comments/ideas/experience most welcome. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.211.153.189 (talk) 15:09, 1 November 2006 (UTC)


 * If the plant causes opioid effects to someone, it could decrease the ability to have sex just the same. Although the plant's effects aren't clear. I believe the dangerous "side effects" refer to the potential possibility of opioid overdose. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snitch ninja (talk • contribs) 22:21, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

The Effects
This sounds like a page copied off of a wild lettuce opium sales site. The effects are not like opiates. It does not kill pain, it simply relaxes a little bit. This is like claiming that 5-htp is similar to an opiate. I just finished smoking a Wild Lettuce cigarrette, I'm not an unreliable source on this one. It is not a drug. Also, intravenous administration of Wild Lettuce can be very dangerous. This page needs significant updating by an expert. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.185.17.120 (talk) 22:08, 7 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Apparently a chemical involved in Lactuca virosa is an enkephalinase inhibitor which, though it does not produce euphoria in itself, can potentiate opioids that are mu-agonists possibly. (This is apparently the closest thing you can get to a "endorphin reuptake inhibitor", because endorphins and natural opioid peptides do not have a reuptake mechanism, they are simply hydrolyzed by enkephalinase and reused later. Inhibiting that keeps them active in your system like a reuptake inhibitor does for the monoamines.)... apparently Opiorphin is an "enkephalinase inhibitor" similar to but endogenous as a chemicals like the above in my statement of which this plant is said to contain... Nagelfar (talk) 06:27, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

i think this whole reference to it being "opium like" should be removed, there is no citation for it being "opiate" like. get some sources. if somebody doesnt get a source soon that proves that it is "opiate like" then im going to have to delete it. how is that even a scholarly term "opiate like"? sounds like somebody is pitching something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.64.65.111 (talk) 19:35, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Picture removed
I have removed the image because it does not appear to be a picture of Lactuca virosa. Perhaps it is L. serriola or L. canadensis. ENeville (talk) 22:02, 7 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Ironically you removed the only actual picture of a virosa... 81.154.221.209 (talk) 22:27, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

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