| Pathya (Do’s) | Apathya (Don’ts) | |
| Cereals | Special variety of rice (sathi chavala), wheat, barley | |
| Pulses | Kulattha, green gram (mudga) | Black gram (udada), chickpea (chana) |
| Fruits & vegetables | Bottle gourd (lauki), paravala, spinach, green vegetables, papaya, apple, cucumber, grapes, mango, amalaki | Potato and other tubers |
| Others | Clarified butter, rock salt, butter milk, sugar candy, cow’s milk, goat’s milk, sour vinegar (kanji) | Spices, pickle, sesame |
| Life style | Physical exercise, therapeutic emesis (vamana), therapeutic purgation (virechana), therapeutic unctuous enema (anuvasana vasti), slimy enema (pichchha vasti) | Day sleeping, suppression of natural urges, eating before digestion of previous food, excessive intake of food |