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Sleeping Pills And The Truth Behind Them
Papaver rhoeus L., known as corn or field poppy, is an annual herb native to Europe and Asia. Extracts of the plant are used in medicine and beverages. Also known as opium poppy, the species is cultivated extensively in many countries, including Iran, Turkey, Holland, Poland, Yugoslavia, India, Canada, and many Asian and Central and South American countries. The poppy seeds and fixed oil that cab be extracted from the seed are not narcotic, because they develop after the capsule has lost the opium-yielding potential. Poppy seeds are used as a condiment with baked goods and pastries for their nutty odor and flavor. Poppy oil is widely used as an edible cooking oil. The oil is also used in the manufacture of paints, varnishes, and soaps. Opium is used in the production of morphine, codeine, other alkaloids, and deodorized forms of opium.
Moreover, Poppy is one of the most important medicinal plants. Traditionally, the dry opium was considered an astringent, antispasmodic, aphrodisiac, diaphoretic, expectorant, narcotic, sedative and hypnotic. The juice of the poppy contains chemicals known as opiates, from which morphine and heroin are distilled.
From the ancient medicinal herbs such as the opium poppy, emerged other sleep-inducers. Sleeping pills are nothing new. The bark of mandrake, or mandragora, was used as a sleep aid, as were the seeds of an herb called henbane. The juice of lettuce was also used to induce sleep. As early as 300 B.C., Greek doctors were known to prescribe concoctions of these different plant derivatives. Similar prescriptions were also apparently known throughout the Arab world. By the early 1900s, barbiturates were introduced. In the 1960s, benzodiazepines arrived on the scene. In the 1990s, consumers welcomed a safer class of insomnia drugs known as nonbenzodiazepine hypnotics.
Sleeping pill, also commonly referred to as a sleep aid, is a drug that helps a person fall asleep or remain sleeping. Disorders such as insomnia (inability to sleep) are widespread and has been a "nocturnal plague" that has been afflicting people for such a long time. In fact, herbs and chemical concoctions have been used to induce sleep since the ancient times.
Two distinct categories of sleeping pills are sold in the United States; these are prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Most prescription sleeping pills are made of active ingredients known as benzodiazepines, a central nervous system depressant. Benzodiazepines include the commonly prescribed drugs called contain chlordiazepoxide (Librium) and diazepam (Valium). Pharmacists developed non-benzodiazepine hypnotics in the 1990s such as zopiclone and zaleplon. Over-the-counter sleeping pill, which can be bought without a prescription, contain antihistamines which induce drowsiness by working against the central nervous system chemical called histamine.
However, most sleeping pill users, such as insomniacs, do not know that sleeping pills do the same things to them during the day than what they want them to do at night, that is, they impair the consciousness, judgment, memory and intelligence. Ironically, insomniacs think sleeping pills make them sleep better, when they actually make them feel worse. Many people believe the misconception that sleeping pills are supposed to help them sleep better. In truth, the effectiveness of sleeping drugs wear off over time. The more often you take them, the less effective they become.
Both prescription and over-the-counter sleep aids can cause side effects, such as next-day drowsiness and, of course, sleeping pill overdose can be fatal. Given the potential hazards, the manufacture of sleeping pills is highly regulated and overseen by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Pharmaceutical companies concentrate are now also reducing the side effects of sleeping pills.
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The origins of the Remembrance poppy
Every year at the start of November people in the UK and some other commonwealth countries start to wear a red poppy in the run up to Armistice Day on 11th November. Known as Remembrance Day in the UK, it is the day we remember the men and women who have fallen in battle in the defence of their country. The Armistice was the agreement that ended World War I and it was signed on 11th November 1918 at 11am.
At 11 o'clock on the eleventh day of the 11th month, Britain pauses for 2 minutes to observe a silence. Remembrance Sunday is observed on the 2nd Sunday in November with parades, services and the laying of wreaths at war memorials in cities, towns and villages all across the UK. The symbol of Remembrance is the poppy and it has been adopted by the Royal British Legion who do so much good work to help former military personal.
The year after the end of World War I, King George V dedicated a day to observe the men and women who had fallen during the four year conflict and the first two minute silence was held in London on 11th November 1919 at 11am. The following day, the Manchester Guardian reported that the two minute silence was impeccably observed.
The poppy was chosen as the symbol of Remembrance for two reason; its red colour reflected the bloodshed and the in the war torn fields of Flanders, the poppy was one of the very few living things to bloom. The poppy is mentioned in the poem "In Flanders Fields" which was written by the Canadian physician John McCrae in 1915.
The style of the poppy worn as a symbol of Remembrance varies slightly from country to country. In the UK, the design of the poppy is a flat, stiff paper leaf mounted on a plastic stem. Some also have a single green leaf and it is held in position with in a single pin.
Wreaths laid at memorials on Armistice Day and throughout the year are usually made of artificial poppies and today countries around the world have adopted the poppy as the universal symbol of Remembrance.
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Weekly Poems from Poems for Free: A Veterans Day Poem and More
VICTORIES ARE NEVER VICTORIES
Victories are never victories.
Every battle waged is a defeat.
The end contains the seeds of the repeat.
Even heroes will take liberties.
Remember this, then, when you go to war:
Although the cause be just, the means is not.
None can write in blood without a blot
Seeping back beneath the bedroom door.
Death cries for vengeance; destruction for destruction.
A battle plan is always a reduction:
You kill your foe yet murder so much more.
FOSTER CHILDREN MOVE FROM PLACE TO PLACE
Foster children move from place to place
With memories that walk the night alone,
Nor is the love theirs that they must embrace.
Yet most survive with a peculiar grace,
Even though their hearts should turn to stone
As they move about from place to place.
Perhaps within themselves they find a space
To furnish as they would a mobile home,
Finding scraps of things they can embrace,
A memory like some much-fingered lace,
Thoughts and dreams that only they have known,
Moving as they do from place to place,
Their childhood impossible to trace
In the years of yearning after they are grown,
Filled with love they've chosen to embrace,
Yet with their losses etched upon their face,
Pain for which no penance can atone.
How can they move and move from place to place,
Surrendering the love they must embrace?
WE STARTED OUT AS FRIENDS AND NOW IT'S LOVE
We started out as friends and now it's love.
How beautiful to move so easily
From comradeship to passionate intimacy,
Pure gain, with no rough edges to remove.
This turn was nothing I'd been thinking of,
No maybes or perhapses, consciously.
I knew desire, but love was not for me
Until I felt my heart from friendship move.
I never felt so happily at home
As I do now, so rich in what life brings.
Your pleasure now is mine, as mine is yours.
I never realized that my life alone
Flitted like a ghost among dead things,
Glancing in through other people's doors.
EIGHT DAYS THE LIGHT CONTINUED ON ITS OWN
Eight days the light continued on its own:
A miracle, they say, but not more so
Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone,
Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.
Within there is a mystic lake of fire,
Fuel-less energy, power uncelled,
Unmeasured fount of obstinate desire,
Hope burning, where no hope was ever held.
Invisible source of all that's seen or seeing,
Unseen light that animates the void;
Unlit spark of indivisible Being,
Shard of One that cannot be destroyed:
To be so vast a miracle till death
Is why we struggle fiercely for each breath.
TO LIVE IS TO BE PREY
To live is to be prey. Meals for microbes.
Horror hangs in the blood like a barracuda
As packs of ravenous viruses howl at the moon.
No flesh is but food. Fierce hunger waits at the crossings
Knowing nothing but lust for the taste of our gristle,
Singing hallelujahs to the Lord.
Give thanks, then, too, for the gift of robust hunger;
In humble gratitude, for the legacy of lust.
Vividly we live and die, our suffering
In perfect harmony with our feeding frenzy;
Nor can we be else but both murderers and murdered,
Grateful for the unsought grace of being.
UNTIL WE MET I DIDN'T KNOW
Until we met I didn't know
How light a heart could be;
How, chained to one by bonds of love,
I still could feel so free.
I didn't realize that my dreams
Could ever be so real;
Or when I had all I could want,
Exactly how I'd feel.
This year of love has brought me through
A long-awaited door:
Were angels parked along our skies,
I could not love you more.
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING
Thank you for listening,
Hearing me out.
All my sad sorrow
Needed, no doubt,
Kindness and sharing.
Yours the love strong,
Open and caring,
Under my song.
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Nicholas Gordon is a poet and the webmaster of the popular poetry site, Poems for Free at http://www.poemsforfree.com. He holds a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University. For most of his working life, he taught English at New Jersey City University, in Jersey City, NJ.
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Importance of Rememberance Day
Whole world celebrate the Remembrance Day, which is also know by several other names such as Poppy Day, Armistice Day or Veterans Day. People should also know that this day or other alternative dates are also recognised as special days for war remembrances in different non-Commonwealth nations. Whereas poppy badges are termed in honour of all heroes who have served their nation in wars. Now with the commonwealth war graves commission supports its possible to do arrangement of poppy wreaths that used to be placed on the graves in most of the nations. Further the poppy brooches are worn by leading celebrities and personalities on Rememberance Sunday, that you can watch on TV and in press. There are various sites who are bidding for sale of broochers now. So if you need just contact at their given addresses.
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