Regimen of the pregnant woman

Month by month the pregnant woman eats rice with sweet, cooling articles and butter (months one and two), with cow's milk (third), with curd (fourth), with cow's milk (fifth) and with curd (sixth); in the seventh, when the fetus grows hair, food with milk and a daily dose of ghee cooked with licorice, lotus, hribera, neem, kadamba, jambu, banana, curd and milk to calm body heat. In the eighth month she receives an asthapana with bala oil, ghee, curd and milk, an anuvasana with oil of the eight sweet drugs and an uttarabasti with the same oil; in the ninth, dosha-pacifying diet and medicines, so that she delivers easily.