Introduction | Measures Suggested

• Two intact, healthy leaf-buds (sunga) plucked from two eastern or northern branches of a Banyan tree grown in a cowshed, alongwith two perfect (possessing good rasa, virya etc.) seeds of dhanya masa (a kind of kidney bean) and gaura sarsapa (yellow mustard) should be taken with curd during Pusya nakshatra.
   

• Similarly the paste of jivaka, rsabhaka, apamarga and sahacara etc.(plants grown in a cowshed) collectively, individually or few of them should be taken (during pusya naksatra) after treating (cooking or mixing) these with milk.
  

• Kudyakita (an insect making abode with wet soil to seal other small insects and laying its eggs) and fish mixed with one anjali (handful) of water should be taken during pusya naksatra.
   

• An anupramana (very small) red hot man shaped structure made with gold, silver or iron, should be dipped in handful of curd, milk or water and total quantity should be taken during pusya naksatra.
   

• The woman should inhale the steam of Sali pisti (dough of rice or pestled rice) being cooked during pusya naksatra. The same dough should be squeezed and the juice collected in swab. The pregnant woman keeping the head on a doorsill should instill herself few drops from this swab in her right nostril.