[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt) › 4.19 # Ashtangasamgraha 4.19 English (machine translation) 4.19 - **Language:** English ### [4.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.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. - [Previous: 4.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.18) - [Next: 4.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.20) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4) ## Linked texts (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.4.19) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.19) · Pramāṇa