Ashtangasamgraha 3.14

3.14

vijñātavṛkṣaṃ kṣuṇṇāgramṛjvagranthi subhūmijam |

kanīnyagrasamasthaulyaṃ sukūrccaṃ dvādaśāṅgulam ||

tataḥ suraktārṣabhacarmapracchade mṛduni bhūmiśayane śayānāmuttānāmābhugnasakthipṛṣṭhāmahatavāsaso 'śaṅkanīyāḥ priyadarśanāḥ pariṇatavayasaḥ prajananakuśalāḥ pragalbhāḥ kṛttanakhāḥ striyaḥ sūtikāṃ sūnṛtābhirvāṇībhirāśvāsayantyaḥ paryupāsīran ||

kaṣāyāśca hitāstasya madhurā eva kevalam ||

phalendrayavagāṅgeyīmadhukaṃ vā samākṣikam ||

tadā pravāhikāsya jāyate |

tasyāṃ sadāhaśūlaṃ sapicchaṃ śvetaṃ kṛṣṇaṃ raktaṃ vā bhṛśaṃ pravāhamāṇaḥ kaphamupaviśati |

taṃ parisravavidhinopacaret ||

nakhairakasmāt paritaḥ svadhātryaṅgavilekhanam ||

From a known tree, with its tip crushed, straight, knotless, born on good ground, / equal in thickness to the tip of the little finger, with a good brush, twelve finger-breadths long.
Then women who are well-dressed, trustworthy, pleasing to look at, mature in years, skilled in childbirth, bold, and with their nails trimmed, comforting the parturient woman with pleasant words, should attend to her as she lies supine on a soft floor-bed covered with a red bull-hide, with her thighs and back flexed.
And only astringent and sweet [remedies] are beneficial for it.
Or madanaphala, indrayava, gāṅgeyī, and yaṣṭīmadhuka along with honey.
Then tenesmus arises in him; / in it, straining violently, he passes kapha accompanied by burning and colic, slimy, white, black, or red; / one should treat him with the regimen for dysentery.
Suddenly scratching the limbs of his wet-nurse all around with his nails;