May
09
/ 2017
A new university textbook in India has included a controversial, ancient recipe that supposedly formulates a sure way to conceive a boy. The text encourages women who want to conceive a boy to find two north facing branches of a Banyan tree that has grown in a stable, take precisely two grains of urad dal and mustard seeds, mix all the ingredients with curd, and consume the mixture. The Cost of Conception Despite this sounding like the kind of recipe a con artist would prescribe to a desperate couple, Mumbai Mirror reports that it is actually part of the third-year Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine, and Surgery (BAMS) textbook that intends to educate students on techniques to conceive a boy. The
