Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c11.5.1

c11.5.1

§ 40. Pregnancy :— The following symptoms appear after the conception : weariness, atony, looseness of limbs— particularly of the thighs, a feeling of heaviness, palpitation of the heart, salivation, nausea, thirst, goose-skin, palpitation in the vulva, retention of the sperm as well as of menstrual blood. The pregnancy is known by the following signs : vomiting, nausea, desire for sour food, dislike for fragrance, heaviness in limbs, closing of eye-lids (by weariness), sleepiness, yawning, swooning, black colour of the skin around the nipples and the lips, swelling of the feet, creation of breast-milk and swelling of the breasts, appearance of hair on linea alba below umbilicus, abnormal appetite etc. (Car 2.22;4.9; Su 3.3.13-15; AS 2.2.202; AHr 2.1.35 f.; 50-52; Bhav 1.1.23). The menses cease, because the canals leading menstrual blood are stopped by the foetus, so that the same is directed partly downwards to the placenta (*apara*), partly upwards to the breasts which, therefore, become full and raised (Su 3.4.24; AS 2.2.202).