If the mother's life has departed but the fetus still moves in the womb and the belly has gone slack, the physician, recognising this state in time, is to cut open the abdomen out of compassion and take the child out.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- शिशुरक्षण
- Hindi
- मृत माता के गर्भ से शिशु को बचाना
- English
- Saving the child when the mother has died
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
The abdomen is cut open and the living child taken out.
हो तो एेसी अवस्था को पहले ही जानकर दयाभाव से बच्चो को बचाने की इच्छा से, पेट को चीर कर
Indicated for, as the text says
- Obstructed labour (mudhagarbha)(प्राणमो़ाणमपि प्रमदाया: / स्त्री का प्राण छूट जाने पर गर्भ फडकना)
Therapies involvedSurgery (shastra karma)शस्त्रकर्म (शल्य क्रिया)
प्राणमो़ाणमपि प्रमदाया:। स्पंदनातिशिथिलीकृतकुि़ाम्।Source wording as converted, Chapter 12 · p. 204 · v. 52.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_shishu_rakshana_p276