>>12735032>shireh>Teriak is the air-dried sticky paste of raw opium. Sukhteh is the dry, black residue of smoked teriak, which sticks to the opium pipe. It can be scraped from the opium pipe and ingested. Shireh is refined opium product often made by boiling a combination of raw opium and sukhteh in hot water and passing the solution through filters several times.you learn something new every day, neat
I imagine it was rather bitter and if you like bitter things the taste does grow on you for sure.
For those that are curies this is the research I got the definitions from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4956779/ 