In Mr. DaCosta’s MS. version of the chapter on hemp in the Mukzun-ul-Udwieh, _churrus_, we are informed, if smoked through a pipe, causes torpor and intoxication, and often proves fatal to the smoker. Three kinds are noticed, the _garden_, _wild_, and _mountain_, of which the last is deemed the strongest; the seeds are called _sheadana_ or _shaldaneh_ in Persia. These are said to be “a compound of opposite qualities, cold and dry in the third degree--that is to say, stimulant and sedative, imparting at first a gentle reviving heat, and then a considerable refrigerant effect.” The contrary qualities of the plant, its stimulant and sedative effects, are prominently dwelt on. “They at first exhilarate the spirits, cause cheerfulness, give color to the complexion, bring on intoxication, excite the imagination into the most rapturous ideas, produce thirst, increase appetite, excite concupiscence. Afterwards the sedative effects begin to preside, the spirits sink, the vision darkens and weakens; and madness, melancholy, fearfulness, dropsy, and such like distempers, are the sequel--and the seminal secretions dry up. These effects are increased by sweets, and combated by acids.” The author of the Mukzun-ul-Udwieh further informs us-- “The leaves make a good snuff for deterging the brain; the juice of the leaves applied to the head as a wash, removes dandriff and vermin; drops of the juice thrown into the ear allay pain and destroy worms or insects. It checks diarrhœa, is useful in gonorrhœa, restrains seminal secretions, and is diuretic. The bark has a similar effect.” “The powder is recommended as an external application to fresh wounds and sores, and for causing granulations; a poultice of the boiled root and leaves for discussing inflammations, and cure of erysipelas, and for allaying neuralgic pains. The dried leaves, bruised and spread on a castor oil leaf, cure hydrocele and swelled testes. The _dose_ internally is one _direm_, or forty-eight grains. The antidotes are emetics, cow’s milk, hot water, and sorrel wine.” Alluding to its popular uses, the author dwells on the eventual evil consequences of the indulgence; weakness of the digestive organs first ensues, followed by flatulency, indigestion, swelling of the limbs and face, change of complexion, diminution of sexual vigor, loss of teeth, heaviness, cowardice, depraved and wicked ideas; scepticism in religious tenets, licentiousness, and ungodliness are also enumerated in the catalogue of deplorable results. The medicinal properties of hemp, in various forms, are the subject of some interesting notes by Mirza Abdul Razes. “It produces a ravenous appetite and constipation, arrests the secretions except that of the liver, excites wild imagining, especially a sensation of ascending, forgetfulness of all that happens during its use, and such mental exultation, that _the beholders attribute it to supernatural inspiration_.”