Ashtangasamgraha 3.37

3.37

That is unwholesome for those distressed by poison, fainting, and intoxication, and for the emaciated; / it is wholesome for a person who has arisen from sleep, eaten, bathed, or vomited.

He will explain that in the later sections.

Now, one should massage the newly delivered woman with balā oil.

And when she is hungry, one should make her drink an amount of unctuous substance digestable within a day, according to habituation, combined with the powder of the five spices, or with the powder of ajwain, small fennel, wild pepper, leadwort, the three pungents, and rock salt.

For one unfit for oleation, a decoction of vāta-dispelling drugs, or a decoction of the lesser five roots.

Cooing like a dove, suffering from flank pain, and then for him,

Puffed rice, water chestnut, nutgrass, dates, and black soil.

In case of vāta, however, one should drink another medicine with unctuous substance and salt.

Seized by thirst and having sunken eyes, śuṣkarevatī destroys him.