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The page covers cannabis in the popular medicine of Cambodia as Martin (1975) recorded it: the remedies, how they were taken, and the place of the medicine men. Remedies from Thailand, Laos and Vietnam are summarised only; they are on Ethnobotanical Aspects of Cannabis in Southeast Asia (1975).
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- Martin (1975), Ethnobotanical Aspects of Cannabis in Southeast Asia, in Rubin (ed.), Cannabis and Culture, pp. 63–76: pp. 67 (Thailand, December 1971), 68 (Cananga latifolia in place of hemp), 69 (the cure for intoxication), 70–71 (Medicinal Uses), 72 (Vietnam, Laos), 74 (kru: thnam).
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- The Khmer terms Martin gives for the remedies name the complaint or the effect: sruəl khluən (well-being), təəh (complications after birth), chɯ: khluən (stiffness), rumliəy mho:p ("to dissolve food"). No remedy has a name of its own in the source, so none has a page, and the table describes them.
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- Khmer terms are given as printed in the chapter, including its phonetic letters (ɔ, ə, ɯ, ɤ). Martin prints Mitragyma once for Mitragyna; the table uses Mitragyna. Her capitalised species epithets (Tetracera Loureiri, Psidium Guajava, Antidesma Ghaesembilla) are given in lower case.
- "Twice daily" in Martin's sentence on mothers with too little milk may refer to the nursing or to the remedy, so the table gives no dose.
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- Martin's report (p. 69), from "one of the countries I visited", of hemp doses raised in a medicine to kill: the country is not named.
- Lim and colleagues (2022), Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 18: 61, on Traditional Khmer Medicine and wildlife: it does not mention cannabis, so it is not cited.