| 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. |