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The page treats churum, the sweetened ganja powder of Mysore and Madras. It does not cover churan or cūrṇa, the general words for a medicinal powder.
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Sources
- McDonnell's Mysore memorandum (Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, vol. III, p. 145) is cited from the page image. The recipe heading reads Churen and the text below it churun. The recipe is printed as a table of 15 items with quantities and prices; the article names the ingredients and gives the ganja quantity and the yield, not the rest of the table.
- Chopra and Chopra (1957) is cited from the UNODC web edition, which carries no page numbers. Their headword is Churum.
Title and spelling
- The title follows the Chopras' churum. Churen and churun, McDonnell's two spellings, are redirects. No redirect is made from churan, which names any powder.
Is it cannabis?
- McDonnell lists ganja first among the ingredients (three tolas) and gives the ganja content of each tola of the finished powder. The Chopras describe it as a ganja preparation.
Kind and plant part
- Sweet: both sources describe a sweetened powder eaten as a food, and neither gives a medical use.
- Flower: ganja.
- Still made: the Chopras say only that it was rarely met with by 1957, so the page records "not known".
Not used
- McDonnell's line that only three men ate of the batch, four tolas each, is left out as a detail of his test rather than of the preparation.