A child that has come near, either from the start or after medicines have been used, is drawn out by hand; if it has died, it is cut with the mudrika (ring) knife and removed quickly.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- मृतगर्भाहरण
- Hindi
- मृत गर्भ निकालने की विधि
- English
- Removal of a dead fetus
Ingredients and preparation
VaginalChapter 12 · p. 205 · v. 59
How it is used
Manual extraction; a dead fetus is cut with the ring knife and removed.
से बाहर निकालना चाहिए। यदि वह बच्चा मर गया हो तो मुद्रिका शस्त्र से विदारण करके निकालना
Indicated for, as the text says
- Death of the fetus in the womb (mritagarbha)(मृतशिशु / मरा हुआ बच्चा)
- Obstructed labour (mudhagarbha)(आसन्नागत अपत्य / निकट आया बच्चा)
Therapies involvedSurgery (shastra karma)शस्त्रकर्म (शल्य क्रिया)
Organs mentionedUterus and female reproductive tractगर्भाशय
मुद्रिकानिहितशस्त्रमुखेना-। श्वाहरेन्मृतशिशुं प्रविदार्य॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 12 · p. 205 · v. 59.Safety
- Needs a trained practitioner. This procedure or preparation is of a kind that should only be carried out under qualified supervision.
Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, kidney or liver disease and other medicines all call for professional advice before any traditional remedy is used.
All references
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Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 12
- Extraction tasks
- T10
- Record id
- method_mritagarbha_aharana_p277