• Waham is the desire for foods of strange qualities such as acrid food while, in Fasād-i Shawat there is desire for unusual and non-nutritive things such as potsherd, coal, etc.
• It is caused by accumulation of Akhlāt Radiyya (Bad humours), usually Khilt Balgham in the stomach and uterus. Uterine Waham/ Fasād-i Shawat, is common in pregnant women.
• It is characterized by a change in eating habit with the desire for unusual foods such as acrid food, coal, lime, potsherd, etc.

• Mashāsh al-‘Izām (Soft ends of bones)
• .Mā’ al-‘Asl; A liquid preparation in which honey and water are mixed in ratio of 1:4 and boiled at low temperature, till 2/3 of it is left. It is filtered and filtrate is used.
• Following Naqū‘(infusion) for oral administration:
• Tukhm-i Mūlī (Raphanus sativus,Linn.), Tukhm-i Shibit (Anethum sowa, Kurz.) infused in Sikanjabīn.
• Oral administration of following Safūf in the dose of 4.5 gm. daily with lukewarm water for pregnant women:
• Ilā’ichī Khurd (Elettaria cardamomum, Maton.), Ilā’ichī Kalān (Amomum subulatum,Roxb.), Jāwitrī (Myristica fragrans, Houtt.) each in equal quantity is powdered and mixed with equal quantity of sugar.

Compound drugs: 

• Aghziya Muta‘affina-Putrefied food stuffs.
• Aghziya Radiyya-Foods that produce bad quqlity of humours.
• Aghziya Saqīla-The food which are difficult to digest.

• Qay’ (Emesis)

• Aghziya Latīfa-Food stuffs which are easy to digest but have little nutritional value,and produc such a sanguine which is normal in viscosity. These are of two types i.e. Mahmuda(that produce good humour) and Ghayr Mahmuda(that produce morbid humour) e.g. garlic, radish, spicy and salty foods,etc.

• Foods of poor quality to be avoided
• Emesis and purgation are contraindicated during pregnancy