Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c11.32

c11.32

In severe pains she should be given to drink a mixture of milk, sugar and honey with various medicines, in retention of urine milk with darbha grass etc., in constipation milk with *sauvarcala* salt, garlic etc., in severe bleeding certain medicines with honey etc. If immediate remedy is administered in this way, the pains get reduced and the foetus grows. If the foetus has come out, she should be given thin gruel which is prepared with substances promoting digestion for as many days as the months have passed since the beginning of pregnancy. According to AS 2.4.214; AHr 2.2.6 f. one should only watch if the woman is in the third month of pregnancy, as in this period the foetus comes out easily; in this case she should be given dry and cold substances. In abortion the woman should take spirituous drinks in large quantity and then rice-gruel. Rice-gruel with different additions should be given to her if she dislikes spirituous drinks.