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are used as snuff for discharge of matter from the
head, their liquid as a wash for the destruction of
lice in the hair of the head, their liquid and oil for
the cure of pain in the ears and destruction of
worms in them. Eating its leaves absorbs watery
substance in the abdomen, produce costiveness, is
diuretic, checks spermatorrhœa, thickens and
exhausts semen. The use of its fibre destroys
masculine heat and exhausts semen, The powder
made from rotten hemp heals wounds and cuts.
The liniment prepared from the roots and leaves of
the bari hemp is used as a deobstruent for the
removal of glandular swellings due to heat and
scrofulous tumours. If its dry leaves half pounded,
warmed by a little hot water being sprinkled
over them, are placed upon warmed leaf of a
fig tree and are then bandaged over testicles,
they benefit their effusion and swellings. Its
seeds when eaten remove nausea, disturb wind
in the abdomen, produce fluids which lessen tem-
perature, bring on costiveness, thicken and exhaust
semen. Its drink exhausts semen. The natives
of India, specially mendicants, drink it to a very
large extent. They are deluded by their false
notions that its drink increases the age and
promotes the power of thought and intellect.
Many of these classes grind it, dissolve it in
water, pass the preparation through a piece of
cloth and drink a bowl of it every morning
and evening. If any one belonging to their
class appears in their company, he is also offered
a bowl of the preparation as a matter of
courtesy ; some take dry leaves, parch them a
little and chew them for a long while. Some mix
the dry and parched leaves with some other dried
articles or with gingelly seed or with sugar, make
a powder, and then eat it. They display great
cheerfulness and pleasure, as in the commencement
its effects stimulate their animal powers. They
eat various kinds of food which they feel palatable
and can digest them. Their bodies become gra-
dually corpulent on account of accumulation of
fluids and they then get involved in bad diseases
such as dyspepsia, flatulence, rumbling of the
intestines, bloatedness, deformity of the com-
plexion and colour of the body, loss of masculine
power, loss of teeth, bad smell in the mouth,
laziness, cowardice, immoral thoughts and impru-
dence. They lose their faith in their religion,
neglect prayers, and draw others also in the vortex
of their own immoral and degraded principles;
some prepare "majum" from hemp and eat them.
To prevent its constipative or costive effects, hemp
is sometimes boiled in milk, which is then made
into curd from which butter is extricated; that
butter is then used in lieu of hemp. Sometimes
boiled milk is used in the various preparations,
If stronger effects are wanted, some charas is
mixed in the " majums. "
NOTE.—Majum is prepared in different ways;
the common kinds of it are—
(1) Cakes.
(2) Electuary.
In preparing " majum " many other medicines
are used in addition to hemp.
Appendix B.
PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING GANJA, CHARAS,
MAJUM AND BHANG AND OF PREPARATION OF
THE DRINK OF BHANG.
1. Ganja.—When the female bhang plants are
cut down, the branches with the leaves and seed
on are separated from the stalks and are buried in
a pit four or five feet deep. Before consigning
them to the pit, its bed is coated with goat dung,
and another lair of the same dung is placed on the
branches after they are deposited there. The pit
is then filled in with earth in which the branches
remain for 15 or 20 days, wherein the leaves and
the seed gradually pass through a process of pre-
servation. The branches thus preserved are then
taken out and sold as ganja. The persons who
use ganja strip off the leaves and the seed from the
stalks of the branches and crush them well by
their hands. The crushed mass is then heated on
a cinder, and made into small lumps or cakes
which are smoked in the bowl of a native " hukka "
along with tobacco.
2. Charas .—This is manufactured in two ways :
(1) the manufacturers of charas put on tight shirts
made of leather, the outer surface of the shirts is
greased, and the men then walk to and fro
a mongst the bhang plants, from which they
receive resinous matter and dust deposited on the
plants and foliage upon the skins to which they
adhere easily. There is another method also, and
it differs from the above method only in one re-
spect, viz ., that the persons put out their clothes,
wear only a strip of cloth round their loins, apply
oil to their bodies and then walk to and fro in the
bhang plants. The resinous matter, dust and the
foliage are then scraped from the skins or the
bodies, are pounded together and made into lumps
of charas. This kind of charas is characterized by
its dark colour and dust-like shape. It is generally
made in the Native States in India.
(2) The female plants are cut down when rip
and let to dry. When they are properly dried,
they are placed upon blankets or thick cloth on.
which they are well beaten by sticks. The coarse
foliage and the stalks are separated, and the fine
portion is gathered and made into cakes or lumps
of charas in the following manner. A quantity of
the fine matter is placed in a piece of cloth and
rolled into a lump or a cake which is then held
before the fire. When heated, the oil and resinous
matter in it stirs up and makes the lump soft and
doughy. It is then removed from the cloth and
let to dry. This process of making the charas is
peculiar to Afghanistan, and the charas imported.
from there is well known for its pale green colour.
It is highly appreciated by the persons given
to smoking it.
3. Majum .—It is made in various ways. The
common method of making it is this. A quantity
of bhang seed is pounded and mixed with honey
or soaked sugar. It is eaten by people chiefly for
the purpose of enhancing the pleasures of sexual
intercourse and is used either in its soft and
doughy state or is made into cakes dried and then
used. In order to increase its effects various seeds
and fruits are added to it. To enhance its effects
oil extracted from bhang is used in the prepara-
tions of the various kinds of majum.
4.
Method of preparing bhang from the plant. —
The method of preparing bhang ghundiun is this.
The entire branches are removed from the plants
and carefully dried and preserved.
The method of preparing bhang kuto or bhang
chur is that when the plants are well dried the
leaves and seed and bunches of leaves and seed
are picked and mixed together. This mixture of
leaves and seeds is called bhang kuto.
5. Method of preparing the drink of bkang in
its liquid form . —The sticks and straw and other
foreign matter being removed, the leaves and seed
are put in a mortar of stone or baked earth, and