Morphine is an opiate drug with analgesic properties, and is used medicinally to relieve severe or chronic pain. It is the main active ingredient of opium, which is a drug manufactured from the seed capsules of the poppy plant, Papaver somniferum. Due to the sleep-inducing properties of the drug, morphine was named by Serturner after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. Morpheus is derived from the Greek term morphe meaning “shape” or “form” as Morpheus was responsible for shaping and forming the dreams of people, and had the ability of appearing in dreams in any
