Cigarettes indiennes
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| Kind | Patent medicine |
|---|---|
| Part of the plant | Whole plant |
| Also called | Cigarros Índios cigarrilhas Grimault |
| Language | French |
Cigarettes indiennes ("Indian cigarettes") are medicated cigarettes of Cannabis indica made by the Paris pharmacists Grimault & Cie and smoked for asthma. The packet shown in an advertisement reproduced by Elisaldo Araújo Carlini reads "Cigarettes indiennes au Cannabis indica contre l'asthme, les bronchites et les maladies du poumon".[1]
In Brazil they were sold as Cigarros Índios. Carlini quotes P. L. N. Chernoviz's Formulário e guia médico, a Portuguese-language medical formulary published in Paris, which in its 1888 edition recommended smoking the cigarrilhas Grimault for chronic bronchitis in children, asthma and laryngeal consumption. He writes that the cigarettes were imported from France and advertised in Brazilian medical journals into the early 20th century, and reproduces an advertisement of 1905 for the "Cigarros Indios, Cannabis Indica, de Grimault e Cia" that offers them for "asthma, catarrhos, insomnia, roncadura, flatos".[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Carlini, Elisaldo Araújo (2006). "A história da maconha no Brasil". Jornal Brasileiro de Psiquiatria (in português). 55 (4): 314–317. doi:10.1590/S0047-20852006000400008.