Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c11.13.3

c11.13.3

If the foetus remains stuck (Su, AS, AHr), the vagina should be smoked with the skin of black serpent or with the piṇḍita plant, or a root of hiraṇyapuṣpī should be tied around her hands and feet, or she should hold certain plants in her hand (Car 4.8.36; Su 3.10.11; AS 2.3; AHr 2.1.83). Similar procedure takes place if the placenta does not come out³. Thus a woman should examine the confined woman in order to ascertain if the placenta has come out or not (Car). If it has not come out, one of the women should press her forcibly above the navel with the right hand, should seize her back with the left hand and should shake her thoroughly. Then she should press her on the hips with her heels, should clasp her buttocks and should press them together with all strength. Then she should put into her throat a braid of hair or a finger with hair⁴ twisted around. The vomiting effected hereby can also be caused by giving certain vomiting and other substances causing nausea, such as urine. Smoking of the vagina and douches in the same, rubbing the genitals with pungent substances, oil-clysters, smearing the forehead with the milk of wolf, or rubbing the heels and hand-palms with lāṅgalī root, eating certain medicines like e. g. a decoction of various plants in which the detached right ear of a living male donkey is dipped, pulling out of the placenta with the hand after oiling the same and cutting the nails, and other remedies are also prescribed (Car 4.8.40; Su 3.10.21; 17;