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Today I'm harvesting my wild lettuce, also commonly known as opium lettuce, or poor man's lettuce, to make a medicinal tincture. I will have the tincture making video up soon. I've had a lot of comments regarding this plant, no it's not an opiate, it was reffered to as opium lettuce is the 1800s because it was used in place of opium because it's a potent pain reliver and sedative. The true species of opium lettuce is lactuca virosa, I have lactuca serriola. The serriola and canadensis can be use

The time of the year for harvesting wild lettuce is here. Which means there is always a debate in my comments how well wild lettuce (lactuca virosa or other closely related species) helps pain. Here is what I know from my experience. It can relieve pain, it's a well known analgesic, hence its name, yet there are so many factors determining its potency, the plants used, timing of harvest, how its been processed into medicine. I know people with chronic pain who use it succesfully and then there a