Ashtangasamgraha 4.11

4.11

Internal bodily heats, struck by the cold wind in winter and entering inside, / make the digestive fire powerful as its heat is gathered in the belly. // For the sake of purifying the womb and abdomen, and for making her forget her distress, / one should treat a woman who does not drink liquor with gruels of uddālaka and the like, mixed with sesame, combined with digestive substances, and free of fat and salt, for as many days as there are months [of pregnancy]. // With dried mouth, breathing repeatedly, trembling, he longs for warmth. // With equal parts of milk and one pala each of the jīvanīya [drugs], having examined it properly, // [it cures] abdominal swellings, urinary calculi, scrotal enlargement, assimilation disorders, and diseases arising from the rectum, as well as various conditions born of kapha and vāta. // In a decoction, one should cook ghee with ground sārivā, the three pungents, and citraka.