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who leave the habit of taking the drugs when they
are subjected to some dangerous diseases resulting
from leaving consumption of the drugs in question.
The diseases that result from leaving the consump-
tion of the drugs are apparently :—1 diarrhœa,
2 dysentery, and 3 pain in the body.
I would state here that I have treated five per-
sons who were in habit of using these drugs. Of
the five three were opium eaters and two were the
consumers of bhang, charas and ganja, and they
were all cured and left their habits of consuming
the drugs. They had come to me only for medi-
cine to enable them to leave their habits of using
the drugs. I prepared medicine for them and their
habits were altogether left. The effect of the
medicine was successfully observed within a week
on the eaters of the opium and over ganja, charas
and bhang consumers. It lasted for over a week
or ten or eleven days. The prescription used is
noted below:—
1.
2.
3.
4
5.
Root of the white flower kandir or
abouder (Verium odorum) . .
Babchi or vernonia
.
.
.
Aspand or harmul barat or Ruta
granalau .
.
.
.
.
Leaves of the bair or plum tree
.
Methi or hulba seed or fevergent
(Frigo vellum famungracum) .
Drams.
3
6
12
24
4
These drugs should be ground with the leaves of
the plum tree dried in the shade and pills made to
the extent of double weight of opium a person eats,
and given to him for seven days successively as
detailed below :—
1st day
.
.
.
.
.
.
2nd „
.
.
.
.
.
.
3rd „ . . . . . .
4th „
.
.
.
.
.
5th „
.
.
.
.
.
.
6th „
.
.
.
.
.
7th „
.
.
.
.
.
Pills.
1
2
3
2
1
1
1
and to the consumers of bhang, charas and ganja
accordingly. The patient should be restricted from
vising or consuming acidity of all kinds during the
course of the use of the medicine in question.
37. The effects of both drugs are the same. I
have seen the smokers of both ganja and charas.
The smoking of both drugs brings forth similar
result.
39. Hemp plant is not smoked. It is commonly
drunk and it is also burnt and its smoke is
applied to the persons affecting with skin diseases
such as urticaria and also its smoke as well as the
smoke of shahtara or Fumitory (Jumaria officivali)
is applied to small-pox stricken persons when they
are severely subjected to itch in the pox in its fresh
state.
40. Bhang seed mixture effects removal of ague
and fever. The mixture is made into powder, and
pills are made and given to patients.
The following is the prescription which is com-
monly used, viz.:—
Bhang seed.
Camphor.
Katha or an astringent vege.
table extract produced from
memora catechu.
Opium.
Of equal weight.
Pills to be made according to pea seed. One pill
is given to a patient a quarter of an hour before the
beginning of the effects of ague and one pill after
nine hours.
Hemp leaves are used in different kinds of medi-
cines such as—
1.
2.
3.
4.
Bleeding piles.
Running urine.
Gonorrhea.
Ointments.
The use of the bhang leaves is different in each
case and the following are the prescriptions which
include the leaves in question—
1. Bleeding piles—
Hemp leaves .
.
.
.
Nárí or arum calocosta leaves .
4 Chittacks.
4
„
Both the leaves are boiled and the water is used
for washing the private part of the body.
2. Sul6ubbol or no stoppage of urine, i.e., running—
Loban koria or white grankincense .
Gulnar or flower of pomegranate .
Karmazij or tamarise indica .
.
Mazoo or gall-nut
.
.
.
Bhanger
.
.
.
.
.
Bustan afroz seed or amaranath .
Dhunia dry or coriander seed .
.
Bahera or mywhaben . . .
Jauzbua or nut mago .
.
.
Mustagi or mastick
.
.
Salib misri or salip
. . .
Gajar seed or carrot . . .
Piaz seed or onion . . .
Supari or nut
.
.
.
.
Honey
. . . . .
Misri or sugar
. . . .
6 mashas.
6 „
6 „
6 „
2½ tolas.
3 „
6 mashas.
6 „
6 „
9 „
3 tolas.
1 „
1 „
1 „
12 chittacks.
8
„
3. Gonorrhœa—
Geru or red earth .
.
.
.
Kanwalgatta or nyampharly seed .
Kanghi leaves or seida gravalews .
Bhang
.
.
.
.
.
.
11 mashas.
5 in number.
2½ „
2 mashas.
To be ground and mixed in four chittacks water :
afterwards nine mashas sand is given to a patient
who takes it first and drinks the said water
over it.
4. Ointment—
Suhaga or Borax .
.
.
.
Nilathotha or sulphate of copper .
Murdar sang or onyed of lid .
.
Mirch siah or black pepper . .
Bhang
.
.
.
.
.
Mustard oil
.
.
.
.
.
6 mashas.
6 „
6
„
11 in number.
3 mashas.
1 chittack.
First oil is boiled and then the other drugs which
are ground into powder are mixed in it and is applied
to wounds. A person used to suffer from ulcer
annually during the rains which here coming out
in both of his legs from the knees to the ankles
and hundreds of ointments were used without any
effect for seven years, and that when the abovemen-
tioned ointment was used the patient was cured in
a few days and never suffered from that disease.
41. The consumption of drinking of bhang in
the first time, when a person begins it, digests food
and stimulates, but at last, i.e., at the time of
adultness, the consumption in question effects the
loss of sight, dementia, insanity, dropsy and to
impotency, asthma and bronchitis.
The use of charas and ganja at once affects the
sight, the brain, the blood, the heart, the liver, the
lungs and the stomach as well as to the semea, and
as more as the consumption or smoking thereof
increases loss of sight and dryness of the above
internal organs, asthma and bronchitis is the
consequence.