Ashtangasamgraha 2.37

2.37

He should not accept meat or gifts from a person who is sick and wretched; / a foremost physician considers compassion for beings as the highest duty towards the sick.

And whatever else elderly women might say:

For one who constantly sleeps on her back, the cord attached to the navel encircles the neck of the fetus and causes disaster;

one who sleeps uncovered and wanders at night gives birth to an insane child;

one fond of quarreling, an epileptic;

one addicted to sexual intercourse, an ugly, shameless, or effeminate child;

one constantly grieving, a timid, emaciated, or short-lived child;

one harboring malicious thoughts, a tormentor of others, envious, or effeminate child;

a thieving woman, a child full of trouble, treacherous, or indolent;

an intolerant woman, a fierce or deceitful child;

one addicted to sleep, a somnolent, foolish, or low-fire child;

one addicted to liquor, a thirsty, poor-memoried, or unstable child;

one constantly eating iguana meat, a child with urinary calculus or one who urinates slowly;

one constantly eating boar's meat, a red-eyed, wheezing, or excessively coarse-haired child;

one constantly eating fish meat, a child who blinks slowly or has fixed eyes;

one constantly eating sweet things, a child with a urinary disorder, a mute, or an excessively obese child;

one constantly eating sour things, a child with a bleeding disorder or an eye and skin disease;

one constantly eating salty things, a child who quickly develops wrinkles, graying hair, or baldness;

one constantly eating bitter things, a child who suffers from wasting, weak, or emaciated;

one constantly eating pungent things, a weak child with little semen or childless;

one constantly eating astringent things, a dark-complexioned child with abdominal distension or upward movement of vāta.

And whatever etiology of a disease a pregnant woman resorts to, she gives birth to an offspring abounding in that very disorder.

By this, defects of the father's semen are also explained.

Milk is wholesome for one afflicted by pitta and vāta, even for one suffering from diarrhea.

Then, having extracted the marrow, one should place it in a clean vessel.

Dry ginger, black pepper, bhārṅgī, vṛścikālī, [and] śatāvarī.