charas

Charas states that the great physician gave it the name of hiera picra or holy bitter.

This assists fossilization to some degree, and fossil Charas are not uncommon.

The dose of Charas is from ten to twelve grains made up into a pill, which is smoked like tobacco.

While we were in Nepal, a shopkeeper, who attended the camp, smoked so much Charas that he died.

Usually they are from the recently deposited rocks, and the earliest true Charas date only to the middle of the Mesozoic.