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The page treats the Jamaican ganja tonic, ganja set in rum or in wine and rum, as Rubin and Comitas recorded it in the early 1970s, taken by mouth and applied to wounds and newborns. The infusion in water is on Ganja tea.
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Sources
- Rubin and Comitas, Ganja in Jamaica (1975): p. 50 (the tonic, and table 3 on the uses of ganja tonics), p. 51 (poultices and compresses; the newborn), p. 55 (beliefs about teas and tonics; men leaving for farm work abroad).
- Comitas, "The social nexus of ganja in Jamaica" (1975), pp. 124–125: rum and/or wine poured on ganja, bottled and allowed to set, used for therapeutic and prophylactic purposes.
Is it cannabis?
- Both sources make the tonic from ganja, green or dried.
Title and other names
- Ganja tonic is the form both sources use most. Ganja-rum tonic is Rubin and Comitas's own form on p. 51, so it is given in the lead and redirects here.
Kind and plant part
- Traditional medicine: taken in doses for complaints and applied to the skin.
- Whole plant: the sources say green or dried ganja and name no part.
- Still made: not known from the sources cited.
Not used
- One woman in the same community made a ganja wine by boiling the plant and leaving it to ferment (p. 51). The source does not call it a tonic, so it is not treated as one here.
- No photograph of a Jamaican ganja tonic was found.