The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s21.t1.27

c5.s21.t1.27

of the hand, with a few drops of water. This suffices for three persons. A little tobacco is placed in the pipe first, then a layer of the prepared gánga, then more tobacco and the fire above all. Four or five persons usually join in this debauch. The hookáh is passed round, and each person takes a single draught. Intoxication ensues almost instantly and from one draught to the unaccustomed; within half an hour, and after four or five inspirations to those more practised in the vice. The effects differ from those occasioned by the siddhi. Heaviness, laziness, and agreeable reveries ensue, but the person can be readily roused and is able to discharge routine occupations, such as pulling the pánkah, waiting at table, etc.