Wild Lettuce herb

Wild lettuce (Lactuca virosa) is also known as 'prickly lettuce' or 'lettuce opium'. The plant has originally spread across Central and Southern Europe and North Asia. It now grows wild in many parts of Europe and it is also widespread in southern North America. Wild lettuce is an annual but sometimes biennial plant that can grow from 60 to 150 cm tall. The leaves are spinose and toothed and the flowers light yellow and basket shaped.

Effects

Wild lettuce can be used in cases of an overactive nervous system and as a sedative. The dreamy effects are a little bit similar to opium, but milder. Wild lettuce can help reduce the feeling of restlessness, excitability and insomnia.
Furthermore it can relieve colic pains in the intestines and uterus and also muscular pains related to rheumatism. Some Indians use the herb to enhance the vividness of dreams. They believe that induced dream states provide more information about reality than the conscious waking state.

Usage

Wild lettuce is to be used as tea: pour a cup of boiling water onto 1-2 teaspoons and let steep for 10-15 minutes. Drink three times daily.

Another method is to make an extract. Soak 100 grams of wild lettuce herb for 8 hours in warm but not boiling water. Then sift and press all the liquid out of the wild lettuce. Put the dark liquid in a pan and let it evaporate. Putting the pan in a bigger pan with boiling water will avoid burning the wild lettuce while drying. What is left is a kind of gum that can be used like opium: smoked or eaten. To smoke, make sure not to burn the gum directly but put it on aluminium foil and hold a lighter underneath while inhaling the smoke through a tube (use for instance the plastic tube of a pen).

To fight irritable coughs wild lettuce may be combined with wild cherry bark. For insomnia it combines with valerian (Valeriana officinalis) and pasque flower (Euphorbia pulcherrima).

Warning

Be careful with the dosage; tests have revealed that on small testing animals even small overdoses can be (very) poisonous.

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Sep 8, 2008 Eric said:
     
“The usage/preparation neglected to mention that you can make small insicions in the stem and a milky white sap will come out much like opium (why it's called opium lettuce) and you just get some to drip on your knife and transfer it to a bowl let it dry and then smoke up!!! Also it grows all over the Northeast United States not just in the South....I thought it was just like opium too, even tastes a bit like opium.”

Aug 29, 2008 Jeroen said:
    
“Well I have to say this is a very very interesting herb.
I made the gom it took a while but its so worth it. I vaporize it in a smoking bubble (like the vapo2 here at azarius). It isn't harsh on the lungs and its a nice cool smoke tastes pretty good BUT the effects aren't that strong (for me that is). Makes me kinda floaty so as said before don't expect to get blown away.

Now I tried something i found on the internet its called black-bombey. What you do is you roll a joint (or fill a cone which was easier to my opinion) with a mixture of hash and wild lettuce gom. Be carefull though it hits you like a giant hammer. The smoke is good and since a joint isn't a direct flame the heat vaporizes the wild lettuce gom before it gets burned. I use a mixture of tobacco, hash and gom. the hash and the gom are in the same amounts. don't take to much tough try small amounts (i used 1/4 of a gram hash and an amount of gom the size of a big pea). divided it into lots of fragments filled my cone with the hash, tobacco and lettuce gom and smoked it. it was heavy i fellt it fast and i smoke weed and hash on a very regular basis. its just a great thing to do if you don't make it to heavy cause that is just hard you will be completely paralized as a matter of speech.

anyway try it you'll be amazed

greetings ”

Apr 17, 2008 once_and_never_again said:
     
“this is sweet. really really nice stuff:) the tea itself is quite nice, but even better if you go through the hassle of making the gummy stuff. it's a bit tedious and messy, and you're not left with much, but what you're left with is nice! REALLY helps with the sleep, and even the buzzing in my ears. TASTES LOVELY too, and leaves you're room smelling nice:) would describe it as a relaxed calm. it's definetely a MILD effect, i wouldn't say you get a "high" off it, so if that's what you're after you might be disappointed. but not "mild" as in unnoticeable, just leaves you feeling relaxed and floaty. it's just a gentle, warm soft sleepyness it brings on. together with half a glass or so of wine, the best sleep you ever had! or just lie on your bed listening to music, erases all nervous thoughts. NICE! ”