宋代罂粟种植广泛,遍布各地,成为一种常规农事和园艺,摸索出一套成熟的种植技术。罂粟用途多样,主要是作为观赏花卉,而且品种有改进,地位不断上升;成熟后作为药材驱逐“邪热”、因服丹石引起的发热,以及医疗肠胃、痢疾、咳嗽、止血等疾病,开创了罂粟医药的新纪元,丰富了中医药;作为可以入口食用的美味,开发出罂粟苗蔬菜、罂粟腐、粥、汤等多种饮食产品,大多属于食疗范畴。还作为礼品馈送亲友。僧人也普遍种植、服用罂粟。宋人对这一新物种的应用,在唐代的基础上开发殆尽,丰富了饮食生活和医药,奠定了罂粟使用的正确方向。 Poppy cultivation in the Song Dynasty is widespread and spread all over the country. It has become a routine agriculture and gardening and has developed a set of mature planting techniques. Poppy is used for a variety of purposes, mainly as ornamental flowers, and its varieties have improved and its status has been on the rise. As a medicinal material, it has been used as a medicine to expel “evil heat” after its maturity, due to the fever caused by dandan and medical treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, dysentery, cough and hemostasis , Creating a new era of opium poppy medicine and enriching traditional Chinese medicine. As a delicious food that can be eaten, many kinds of diet products such as poppy seedling vegetables, poppy rot, porridge and soup have been developed. Most of them are therapeutic categories. Also as a gift to friends and relatives. Monks are also commonly planted, taking opium poppy. The application of this new species by the Song people developed completely on the basis of the Tang Dynasty, enriched the dietary life and medicine, and laid the correct direction for poppy use.