Ashtangasamgraha 4.19

4.19

The winter wind kept off by embrace of the body of a plump woman. / In the dewy season, the cold is greater, born of clouds, wind, and rain. // Likewise, it promotes the growth of milk, tissue juices, and the unformed embryo; / and feeding with these very substances, such as ghee and the like; // providing for a well-nourished [woman] through constant avoidance of vehicles and conveyances, and through nourishing measures. // With the openings of his channels covered by śleṣman, afflicted by enraged wind. // Or he should drink jujube-marrow with liquor, curd, and whey, / or paste of pippalī fried in ghee with rock salt. // Of honey, oil, [the drug] named phala, alkaline water, and mustard oil. // Lakṣmaṇā, that named sahadevā, nāgadantī, and kaṭambharā.