Ashtangasamgraha 1.19

1.19

Constantly useful, difficult to understand, all-pervading by nature, / wherein internal medicine especially has been compiled.
Others say sixteen nights. / Some say even a month for a woman whose vagina, uterus, and menstrual fluid are purified. / Likewise, others say that there is also [a woman] whose menstrual fluid is not seen.
A disease arisen under the asterism leads to distress or death.
Bathing, inunction, poultices, and over-saturation, and fasting.
Especially, however, jīmūtaka in fever, dyspnea, hiccup, and the like.
Likewise, a brāhmaṇa knowing the Atharvaveda should perform the propitiatory rite for ten days. / He should recite the Māyūrī, the Mahāmāyūrī, and the Āryāratnaketudhāriṇī at both twilights.