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4 Churrus is never used as tin intenor remedy. 1 have made
5 different trials with it, and refer for a further .description of its
6 qualities to the second volume of this work.
7 The general use of clmmis consists i;i mixing if with tobacco,
8 and smoking it in the hooka (water pipe), and the natives
9 sometimes place them selves in a circle around the hooka, each
10 taking a few inhalations, arid then passing the tube to another.
11 The inebriating power of chums manifests its.If immediately,
12 hut also ceases very speedily. Its immoderate use frequently
13 produces mental derangement.
14 The Sikhs are forbidden smoking tobacco, and consequently
15 from smoking churrus also, inasmuch as it is always mixed
16 with tobacco. As a compensation lor this deprivation they are
17 permitted to use opium and spirituous liquors to any extent,
18 whence the great number of opium-eaters among those people,
19 both males arid females, in all classes of society.
20 The cannabis rtiMca , has a similar appearance to our can-
21 nobis sativa , but they are very different in their properties,
22 and il is remarkable that the fonder loses its effective virtue
23 when transmitted to Europe. It is asserted that even the
24 resinous extract which was piepared at Calcutta, was less
25 energetic at London than in India, If that be the ease, I
26 ascribe the circumstance to the difference of the climate, or
27 its conveyance over the sea, having myself experienced that
28 several medicaments, which I hail brought, with me from those
29 countries, lost their virtu.: during my six months’ voyage down
30 the Ganges and across the ocean. It hus yet to be ascertained
31 whether our cannabis sativa would be of the same effective
32 nature in India as in Europe. The apparent difference between
33 those two plants consists only in the size of their seeds, those
34 of the cannabis indicti being .-.mailer than those of the European
35 plant.
36 Opium, as I,have already mentioned, is also extensively used
37 in India, arid is still more detrimental than the other intoxicat¬
38 ing drugs whose preparation and use I have been describing;
39 ample particulars respecting the effects produced by it will