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Draft translation of claims made by the source. This is unverified historical material, not treatment advice.

If women have a lot of pain during menstruation or if menstruation does not come properly, eat sesame. After boiling one tola (original units) of black sesame in twenty tola (original units) of water, five tolas (original units) of water will remain, then take it and add jaggery to it and drink it to get rid of menstruation. Eating raw onion makes menstruation clean and painless. If there is excessive bleeding and dizziness during menstruation, drinking tulsi juice mixed with honey is beneficial. Take three tola (original units) of fenugreek flour and soak it in twenty tola (original units) of milk overnight.

In the morning, heat five tola (original units) of ghee, put fenugreek flour soaked in milk in it and knead it. Then add two tola (original units) of jaggery to it and mix it properly and feed it to the pregnant woman for twenty one days, the wound comes loose. Cumin seeds increase milk supply in women. [Dag] roasted in ghee, eaten with ghee, cures vertigo and colic in a Suvadi woman. In Suvavad, women should use sleep sparingly so that the wound heals, the back does not hurt and the food is digested. Crushed into the root of tandalja and drunk in a bowl of rice cures vaginal bleeding and pregnancy bleeding.

If a pregnant woman does not feel hungry, take a spoonful of Ajma Churna, two spoonfuls of ginger juice and betel nut jaggery in the morning and at night to feel very hungry. In fever and back pain after childbirth, taking half a spoonful of ajwain, half a spoonful of dried ginger and two spoonfuls of ghee in the morning and at night cures fever and back pain. In complaints of vomiting, nausea, indigestion, aphroa, diseases of phlegm, colic etc., taking half a spoonful of Ajama powder with lukewarm water every morning and night cures vomiting of women. Eating orange can cure nausea and vomiting in pregnant women.

A decoction of asafoetida administered to the genitals at the time of delivery facilitates delivery.