| Pathya (Do’s) | Apathya (Don’ts) | |
| Cereals | Old rice, wheat, barley | Fried and difficult to digest articles of food |
| Pulses | Pigeon pea (arahara), green gram (mudga), masura | Peas, black gram (udada) |
| Fruits & vegetables | Papaya, banana, potato, amalaki, pomegranate, grapes, anjira, apple, paravala, mango, haritaki | |
| Others | Clarified butter from cow’s milk, cow’s milk, butter milk, Punarnava, guduchi | Excessive use of oil and clarified butter, mustard oil, betel, spices, rai, hingu, sesame, heavy food |
| Life style | Therapeutic purgation (virechana), unction, rest | Therapeutic blood letting, smoking, therapeutic emesis (vamana), suppression of natural urges, sudation, sexual indulgence, day sleeping, sunlight exposure, physical exercise, anger, excessive walking, excessive intake of water |