jan 1, 4200 BC - First Evidence Related to Human Beings and Opium Consumption.

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Opium poppy seed pods found in a burial site at Albunol near Granada, Spain. The opium poppy, Gil (''happiness''), or Gil Hul (''joy plant''), is one of the oldest medicinal plants in recorded history. It was used to make people sleep, to relieve pain and to quiet the nerves because it acts on the nervous system and influences psychic functions. It was used to calm crying children, for external use as eye drops, to cure breast abscesses and in two ointments for hair-care.

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