Use of Ion Exchange in Recovery and Partial Purification of Morphine from Aqueous Extracts of Poppy Capsules**Northern Utilization Research and Development Division, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Ill.

Extraction of Morphine from Poppy Capsul

Extraction of Morphine from Poppy Capsules and its Recovery by Ion Exchange**Northern Utilization Research Branch Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois.

✍ Mehltretter, C.L. ;Weakley, F.B. 📂 Article 📅 1957 🏛 Elsevier ⚖ 399 KB

An efficient method for obtaining morphine from domestically grown poppies has been developed. Morphine was completely extracted from. dried poppy capsules with water-saturated isobutanol containing 0.2 3% ammonia. By passage of the extract through a cation exchange resin bed, practically all of the