MYSORE MEMORANDUM. 145
No.
Name of ingredients.
Quantity.
Price.
Tolas.
Rs. A. P.
1 Ganja
1
0 0 61/2
2 Nutmeg
2
0 1 6
3 Cunchoori-root
1/2
0 0 1/2
4 Cardamoms
1/2
0 0 3
5
cloves
1/2
0 0 1
6 Caraway seeds (Soapu)
1
0 0 1
7 Cimuiuon.
1
0 0 11/2
8 Sandal
1
0 0 2
9 Allise-seed
1
0 0 3
10 Rose petals
3
0 0 9
11
Honey
3
0 0 6
12 Dry figs
1
0 0 11/2
13 Sugar
21
0 1 6
14 Almond
24
0 2 0
15 Koonkum flower (saffron)
1/8
0 1 0
16 Pachchai-kurpoor
1/8
0 2 6
17 Ghee
12
0 2 3
18 Firewood
0 1 4
TOTAL
753/4
0 15 0
(b) Alwa,—A recipé for the preparation of alwa for children.
(1) One tola
(180 grs.) of ganja should be boiled
with a quarter seer (5 oz.) of cold
water for quarter of an hour, the ganja
is then taken in the hand and all the
water expressed out of the residuum.
The stalk and seeds are then removed.
The ganja is now boiled with half a seer
(12 tolas) of ghee for half an hour
and then strained and the sediment re-
jected. (2) The sugar is now boiled
with quarter seer (5 oz.) of cold water
till it becomes a thick syrup, (3) The
poppy-seed, dry figs, almonds, and rose
petals should be well ground and put
into
item
(2) and well
mixed.
The other ingredients should be well
pounded. Koonkum flower and pach-
chai-kurpoor should be ground with
a little water to form a sauce. All the
ingredients are now cast into one vessel
and the honey added and well mixed.
This preparation is sold at one cash per
ball of 54 grains which is a dose for a
child eight years old. The ball contains 2/3 grs of ganja.
No.
Name of ingredients.
Quantity.
Pric e.
Tolas.
Rs. A. P.
1 Ganja
4
0 6 6
2 Nutmeg
4
0 3 0
3 Cunehoori-root
4
0 0 4
4 Cardamom
1
0 0 6
5 Clove
1
0 0 2
6 Caraway seeds (soapu)
2
0 0 2
7 Cinnamon
1
0 0 11/2
8 Samlal
1
0 0 2
9
Anbe-seed
1
0 0 3
10 Maee
1
0 2 0
11 Ghee
6
0 1 2
12 Jaggery
24
0 0 10
13 Firewood
0 0
91/2
TOTAL
50
1 0 0
(c) Alwa-Kamera-Jafran.-A
recipe for this preparation for adults is given in the
margin, (1) The ganja should be
boiled well and the water expressed out
and rejected. The residuum is then
ground. (8) The other ingredients
should be pulverized and mixed with
the ganja powder after it has been well
boiled with ghee. This preparation is
sold at five cash per ball of 180 grains,
which contains 142/3 grs. of ganja. The
material difference between the two
preparations b and c consists in the
liquid infusion of the ganja after being
boiled with the ghee being retained for
children while in that for adults the
"sediment" of the ganja after being
bulled with water is bodily added to
the preparations while the water is
rejected.
No.
Name of ingredients.
Quantity.
Price.
Tolas.
RB. A. P.
1
Ganja
3
0 1 8
2
Kadale (Bengal gram)
6
0 0 2
3 Cuscus (poppy-seeds)
1/2
0 0
4
4 Cinnamon
1/2
0 0 1
5 Clove
1/2
0 0 1
6
Peppor
1/2
0 0 1
7
Almond
1/2
0 0 1
8 Ginger
1/2
0 0
4
9
Dry cocoanut at
3
0 0 1
10 Fried rice
3
0 0 1/4
11 Beaten rice
3
0 9 1/4
12 Soapu (caraway seed)
1/2
0 0 1/2
13 Sugar
6
0 0 3
14 Ghee
6
0 1 2
15 Firewood
0 0 8
TOTAL
331/2
0 4 6
(6) Churen.—A recipé for the preparation of churun is given in the margin.
The
ganja is mixed with 61/4 oz. of cold
water and boiled for 20 minutes.
The
water is all expressed out of the ganja
with the baud and the other ingredients
are all fried properly on a metal or
earthen platter and then ground to a
fine powder on a curry-stone, except the
cocoanut, which is cut up into minute
pieces. The whole is lastly mixed with
the sugar. The ghee is first dissolved
and then added to the mass and well
mixed up. The total quantity weighed
about 22 tolas. This is enough for five
men for one day, but only three men ate
of this quantity—4 tolas (720 grs.)
each.
It is eaten little by little at
intervals during the day. It will keep
for six months. Each tola of churun
contains 161/8 grs. of ganja.
(7) Curry.—With other ingredients of a native curry a tola (180 grs.) of ganja is
ground on a curry-stone and added to every 1/2 seer (one lb.) of mutton used and partaken
of by the meat-eating classes.
(8) The following are the preparations of ganja according to the British Pharmacopoeia
with a brief summary giving the analysis, mode of preparation and doses, the medicinal
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