[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) › 1.26 # Ashtangasamgraha 1.26 English (machine translation) 1.26 - **Language:** English ### [1.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.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. - [Previous: 1.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.25) - [Next: 1.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.27) - [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.1.26) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.26) · Pramāṇa