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The page treats yakuti, the hemp sweetmeat recorded in western and central India. It does not cover Unani preparations whose names contain yaqut (ruby) unless a source shows them made with cannabis.
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Sources
- Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, vol. I, ch. VIII, para. 429, p. 158, is cited from the page image.
- J. M. Campbell's report on Bombay (dated 1 September 1893) is printed in the Bombay memorandum, vol. III, p. 95, and is cited from the page image.
- A. H. Plunkett (vol. VII, Bombay witness no. 19, p. 30) is cited from the page image. His recipes give quantities for the ganja base (five sers of ganja, 20 sers of water, 2½ sers of ghee, 12 hours' boiling) and for each sweet.
- The Berar memorandum (vol. III, p. 108) is cited from the page image.
Yakuti and majum
- The sources disagree on whether yakuti is its own preparation. The commission's report and Campbell list it beside majum as a separate sweet, and Plunkett gives it its own recipe (lozenges of sugar syrup and ganja ghee with cardamoms, nutmeg and mace). The Berar memorandum calls it "only another name of majum", with richer spices. Another Bombay witness (Ahmednagar, Bombay witness no. 25, p. 42) writes "majum otherwise called yakuti". The page states both views and keeps yakuti separate from Majoun because most of the sources do.
Is it cannabis?
- Plunkett's yakuti is made with ganja-infused ghee; Campbell's owes its intoxicating qualities to bhang or garda; the Berar memorandum's is a majum of ganja essence.
Kind and plant part
- Sweet. The commission says the hemp sweetmeats were all thought aphrodisiac, but no source cited here gives a medical use for this one.
- Leaf and flower: bhang, garda (the droppings of ganja) and ganja.
- Still made: not known from the sources cited.