A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.238.2

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the remaining types are curable (2.5);¹² the treatment of the disorders of the semen (śukradoṣa) (2.6–11ab);¹³ the characteristics of normal semen (2.11cd–12ab);¹⁴ the treatment of the disorders of the ārtava (2.12cd–16); the characteristics of normal ārtava (2.17);¹⁵ the disorder called asṛgdara, characterized by an excessive discharge of menstrual blood (menorrhagia) or bleeding from the uterine tract at irregular times (metrorrhagia) (2.18); the symptoms of asṛgdara (2.19–20ab);¹⁶ asṛgdara should be treated on the same lines as raktapitta (2.20cd–21ab);¹⁷ amenorrhoea and its treatment (2.21cd–22); the already described oligomenorrhoea¹⁸ should be treated like amenorrhoea (2.23); things to be avoided by a menstruating woman; the specific bad effects that infringements on these rules may have on a child conceived during the fertile period; rules regarding sleeping habits and diet during the first three days of the menstrual cycle; coitus should be avoided during these three days, but is permitted on the fourth day (2.25);¹⁹ a woman should see her husband after the bath at the end of her impure period, because the child that might be conceived resembles the person first seen (2.26); rites and various prescriptions regarding behaviour and diet leading to the conception of a male (2.27–20) or female child (2.30);²⁰ intercourse on the first day of menstruation reduces a man's span of life; a child conceived on that day would die during delivery;