[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt) › 1.20 # Ashtangasamgraha 1.20 English (machine translation) 1.20 - **Language:** English ### [1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.20) Not even a single measure here is devoid of traditional authority. / The contents and the arrangement of the text are the same; the order is otherwise for the sake of conciseness. One should know a woman with relaxed eyes and abdomen, desiring a man, to be in her fertile period. In the Bharaṇīs after five days; but in the Kṛttikās after seven days. One should not drink medicine, for that would indeed produce even more āma. In the case of fruits, \[it should be given in\] milk gruel. / In the case of hairy ones, in the cream of milk. / In the case of hairless ones, in curds or curd whey. / In the case of greenish-pale ones, in milk or sour curds. / One should drink the dry powder of ripe, dried jīmūtaka fruits combined with its decoction with milk in vātapitta. And \[it should be worn\] on the neck and at the head of the boy together with the mother. / Likewise the Āryāparṇaśabarī and the Āryāparājitā inscribed with gorocanā. - [Previous: 1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.19) - [Next: 1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.21) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1) ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1.20) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.20) · Pramāṇa