Ashtangasamgraha 3.17

3.17

tathāsyamalavairasyagandhā jihvāsyadantajāḥ |

rucivaiśadyalaghutā na bhavanti bhavanti ca ||

tattu na samyak |

dāruṇavyāyāmavarjanaṃ hi garbhiṇyāḥ satatamupadiśyate |

viśeṣataśca prasavakāle pracalitasarvadhātudoṣāyāḥ saukumāryatvānnāryā musalavyāyāmenerito vāyurantaraṃ labdhvā prāṇān hiṃsyāditi ||

saṃsṛṣṭeṣu hi doṣeṣu sarvajicchamanaṃ hitam ||

dāḍimāmalakāmlo vā mandāgnyamlābhilāṣiṇaḥ ||

tena sarvāṅgapragraho bhavati |

tasya viśeṣāt pārśvapṛṣṭhaśroṇimanyāmamasu śūlamūrcchābhramakalpastambho nistodo bheda udveṣṭanaṃ saṃjñānāśaśca syāt |

tamabhyajya dhānyaiḥ svedayitvā yaṣṭīmadhukavipakvena tailenānuvāsayet |

vātaharaṃ cānnapānam ||

calitaikākṣigaṇḍabhrūḥ saṃraktobhayalocanaḥ |

skandārtastena vaikalyaṃ maraṇaṃ vā bhaveddhruvam ||

Thus, impurities, bad taste, and foul smells of the mouth arising from the tongue, mouth, and teeth do not occur; / and taste perception, clarity, and lightness arise.
That, however, is not correct. / For avoidance of violent physical exertion is constantly instructed for a pregnant woman, / and especially at the time of delivery, when all bodily tissues and doṣas are agitated, because a woman is delicate, the vāta stirred up by physical exertion with a pestle, finding an opening, would destroy her vital breaths.
Indeed, when the doṣas are combined, an all-pacifying palliative is beneficial.
Or [gruel] soured with pomegranate and āmalaka for one with weak digestive fire and a craving for sour taste.
By that, stiffness of all the limbs occurs. / Particularly, there would be pain in his flanks, back, pelvis, nape of the neck, and vital points, faintness, stupor-like rigidity, piercing pain, tearing pain, cramps, and loss of consciousness. / Having anointed him and fomented him with grains, one should give an oily enema with oil cooked with yaṣṭīmadhuka; / and food and drink should pacify vāta.
With one eye, cheek, and eyebrow twitching, both eyes bloodshot, / afflicted by Skanda, through that deformity or death will surely occur;