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Ashtangasamgraha 4.27

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4.27

One should avoid heavy and cold foods, daytime sleep, and unctuous, sour, and sweet things.
In summer, the sun resembles a flax flower, burning with forest fires;
Severe pain arises, the fetus does not flutter, the uterine vessels do not appear, the vagina does not discharge, and her eyes droop; likewise, overcome with extreme restlessness, she suffers pain, moves abnormally, faints, becomes dizzy, weeps day and night, does not sleep, has foul breath, breathes with difficulty, lives with extreme suffering, and pants—one should recognize a woman of this description as carrying a dead fetus.
It increases when digestion is impending, and [also] when digestion takes place.
Likewise, with waters boiled with madana, kāśmarya, and madhuka,
or with pastes of madana fruit and licorice, flooded with the juices of vidārī and sugarcane;
Combined with their own paste and rock salt, they cleanse the large intestine.
They violently agitate the lord of rivers (the ocean), which possesses great waves.

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