Ashtangasamgraha 1.26

1.26

The constitution with balanced bodily tissues is best among all; those born of two doṣas are censured.
There, wind is dry, light, cold, rough, subtle, and moving.
Therefore, on those [nights] in order, the birth of a son and of a daughter occurs.
For this very reason, one desiring a son should not approach a woman whose menstrual flow has not ceased, even on later days.
If, however, due to diet, there should be an excess of semen on odd [nights] and a deficiency on even [nights], then a male is born with a female appearance, weak, or deficient in limbs;
and a female is born with a male appearance, weak, or deficient in limbs.
On the eleventh and thirteenth [nights], however, a hermaphrodite is born.
In Viśākhā, one should predict death in fortnights, [or] on the twenty-second day.
From the beginning, with [gruels] prepared with appropriate medicines, starting with rice water,
or a barley mash mixed with the fresh juice of that fruit in kapha-fever, cough, throat diseases, and anorexia;
or ikṣvāku paste with meat broth in vāta-kapha abdominal swellings and persistent fevers.
Galactagogues, however, are alcoholic drinks other than śīdhu, meat of marsh animals, liquid foods mostly sweet, sour, and salty, milk-yielding medicinal plants, drinking milk, absence of fatigue, and cheerfulness of mind.