A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c25.606

v1.c25.606

Chapter four (garbhavyāpad), corresponding to the chapter of the same title (Śā.2) of the Hṛdaya, discusses the following subjects: the treatment of bleeding, accompanied by piercing pain, during pregnancy (4.2–6);¹¹³ the treatment of piercing pain without loss of blood ¹¹⁴ (4.7); bleeding during the first three months usually results in abortion (4.8);¹¹⁵ untimely birth may occur in the later months too when the blood is accompanied by āma, ¹¹⁶ because protective measures for the foetus and measures against āma are contradictory (4.9); therapeutic measures to be tried nevertheless (4.10);¹¹⁷ the treatment of abortion (āmagarbhapāta) (4.11)¹¹⁸ and incomplete abortion (āmagarbhaśeṣa) (4.12); the processes leading to the disorders of pregnancy called upaviṣṭaka and upaśuṣkaka (4.13);¹¹⁹ general descriptions of upaviṣṭaka and upaśuṣkaka; the latter is also called nāgodara (4.14);¹²⁰ in both conditions, the foetus grows very slowly; the child will be born at last, but after a very long pregnancy (4.15); the symptoms in upaviṣṭaka and upaśuṣkaka pregnancies caused by vāta (4.16), pitta (4.17) and kapha (4.