Monthly Archives: January 2017
Tastes and Bio-humours
Do’s and Don’ts in Leucorrhoea
| Pathya (Do’s) | Apathya (Don’ts) | |
| Cereals | Wheat, barley, old rice | |
| Pulses | Masura, chickpea (chana) | Black gram (udada) |
| Fruits & vegetables | Paravala, bathua, chaulai, spinach, bottle gourd (lauki), papaya, apple, pomegranate, grapes, banana, amalaki, dry dates (chhuara), ginger (ardraka), coriander | Onion, garlic, brinjal |
| Others | Cow’s milk, goat’s milk, fresh buffalo’s ghee, cold substance | Alcohol, pickle, vinegar, sour curd, sour substance, oil, jiggery, spicy food |
| Life style | Day sleeping, night awakening, excessive exercise, fasting, eating before indigestion of previous food, walking in sunlight, sadness, excessive sexual indulgence |
Do’s and Don’ts in Ashthila
| Pathya (Do’s) | Apathya (Don’ts) | |
| Cereals | Old rice, special variety of rice (sanvaka) | Newly harvested cereals |
| Pulses | Green gram soup (mudga), kulattha | Black gram (udada) |
| Fruits & vegetables | Garlic, fruit and leaf of shigru, bitter gourd (karavellaka), patolapatra, leaf of punarnava | |
| Others | Ghee, oil | Salty, pungent and acidic food substances, refined powder of cereals and pulses, sesame, jaggery, curd |
Do’s and Don’ts in Yuvana pidika
| Pathya (Do’s) | Apathya (Don’ts) | |
| Cereals | Old barley, wheat, rice | Newly harvested cereals |
| Pulses | Green gram (mudga), pigeon pea (arahara), masura | Black gram (udada) |
| Fruits & vegetables | Patola, kakamaci, garlic, cucumber (khira) | Radish |
| Others | Bitter dietary substances, old ghee, mustard oil, sesame oil, nimba oil, cow’s urine | Sour and heavy substance, milk, curd, sugarcane product, jaggery etc. |
Do’s and Don’ts in Scabies
| Pathya (Do’s) | Apathya (Don’ts) | |
| Cereals | Old barley, wheat, rice | |
| Pulses | Green gram (mudga), pigeon pea (arahara), masura | Black gram (udada) |
| Fruits & vegetables | Cucumber (khira), patola, kakamachi, garlic | Radish |
| Others | Bitter dietary substances, old ghee, mustard oil, sesame oil, nimba oil, cow’s urine | Sour and heavy substance, newly harvested cereals, milk, curd, sugarcane product, jaggery etc. |
Do’s and Don’ts in Bhagandara
| Pathya (Do’s) | Apathya (Don’ts) | |
| Cereals | ||
| Pulses | Green gram (mudga) | |
| Fruits & vegetables | Bathua and other leafy vegetables | |
| Others | Light food | Heavy and cold food, unsuitable – incompatible food |
| Life style | Fasting, therapeutic emesis, therapeutic purgation, blood letting, non unctuous enema | Exercise, coitus, wrestling, riding, day sleeping, intake of food at improper time |
Do’s and Don’ts in Mukhpaka
| Pathya (Do’s) | Apathya (Don’ts) | |
| Cereals | ||
| Pulses | Black gram (udada) | |
| Fruits & vegetables | ||
| Others | Milk, curd, jiggery, rough and hard food substance, heavy and channel obstructing food | |
| Life style | Therapeutic emesis | Teeth cleaning, bathing, sour substance, fish, Meat of marshy animal, sleeping in dorsal position (adhomukha shayana), day sleeping |
Do’s and Don’ts in Dysmenorrhoea
| Pathya (Do’s) | Apathya (Don’ts) | |
| Cereals | Barley | |
| Pulses | ||
| Fruits & vegetables | ||
| Others | Garlic, milk, meat juice, oil, long pepper, lauha bhasma, abhayarishta, balataila | Manda, diets and life style causing aggravation of Vata dosha |
| Life style | Unction, sudation, therapeutic enema (vasti) |
Do’s and Don’ts in Sinusitis
| Pathya (Do’s) | Apathya (Don’ts) | |
| Cereals | Old shali rice | |
| Pulses | Kulattha, green gram (mudga) | |
| Fruits & vegetables | Paravala, drum stick (shigru), radish, garlic | |
| Others | Chitraka haritaki, jaggery, curd, black pepper | Intake of alcohol, dry food |
| Life style | Intake of warm water, therapeutic emesis (vamana), shadabindu taila, intake of luke warm water through nasal passage, smoking | Use of cold water for drinking and bathing, excessive thinking, suppression of natural urges, smoke, dust, day sleeping, sleeping on the ground |