Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c11.34

c11.34

For upaviṣṭaka and nāgodara Car 4.8.27-28 prescribes butter preparations; for nāgodara also milk, eggs and things which cause the growth of the foetus, and frequent riding. For līna he recommends taking gruels of the flesh of the falken fish, Bos gavaeus, partridge, cock or peacock with butter etc., and anointing the body with lukewarm oil. Similar prescriptions are given by AS 2.4.215 ff., and AHr 2.2.17-20. The egg preparations, according to Arunadatta, should be so prepared that they may not cause nausea while eating. The riding should serve for shaking the body. According to Su 3.10. 57 the shaking of the body can be effected also by thrashing with the pestle in a mortar full of corn (cf. § 42) or by inconvenient sitting in the case of the foetus remaining in the womb over and above the time. In the case of a foetus vanishing by demonical influence the procedure as in līna and nāgodara is to be followed.