Ashtangasamgraha 2.40

2.40

For woman is the root of offspring, and woman, protected, protects. / The state of householder is the first and blameless among all life stages. // Due to affliction by a spirit, in this [condition] there is sudden laughter and crying. // Boiled and cooled, mixed with honey, it destroys thirst, burning sensation, and fever. // One should drink that prepared in the juice of emblic myrobalans with a paste of marrow. // One should cook a prastha of oil equal to beer-scum as an unguent.