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The text treats yoni diseases by dosha; an editorial note gives their causes (wrong diet and conduct, vitiated menstrual blood, semen defects, fate) and twenty kinds, five each from vata,…

The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

Milk in general is described as sweet, cold, unctuous and very aphrodisiac, destroying disorders of blood and vata, thirst, pitta, fainting, diarrhoea, breathlessness, cough, wasting,…