ABSTRACT
Madad is prepared as follows. Crude opium is boiled in a pán into which one end of a hempen wisp is put, while the other is dropped into an empty pot. The boiling liquid is then gradually strained off, the hemp retaining all sedimentary matters. It is afterwards allowed to cool, and reboiled, when Pán leaves moistened and made crisp by a dry heat are thrown in fine pieces into the decoction. By means of two sticks the chopped leaves are thoroughly mixed with the opium, and as the liquid congeals each fragment of leaf has a small quantity of opium adherring to it, which being removed and made into balls the size of small bullets, are wrapped in fine paper and sold for one paisa each.
