| 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. |
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Ayurvedic advocacy on conducive diet and lifestyle
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 |
Do’s and Don’ts in Rhinitis
| Pathya (Do’s) | Apathya (Don’ts) | |
| Cereals | Old shali rice | |
| Pulses | Kulattha, green gram (mudga) | |
| Fruits & vegetables | Paravala, drum stick (shigru), radish, garlic | |
| Others | Hot freshly prepared food, jaggery, powder of roasted cereals (sattu), haritaki, shadangayusha, shadabindu taila, chyavanaprasha | |
| Life style | Lightening, drinking of clarified butter (ghrita), sudation, therapeutic emesis (vamana), snuffing (avapidana nasya) | Use of excessive cold water for drinking and bathing, excessive worry (atyadhika chinta), intake of alcohol, dry food, suppression of natural urges, day sleeping, sleeping on the ground |
Do’s and Don’ts in Raktapradara
| Pathya (Do’s) | |
| Cereals | Shali Rice |
| Pulses | |
| Fruits & vegetables | Patola, lisora, pomegranate, amalaki |
| Others | Milk, honey, clarified butter (ghrita) processed with nyagrodhadi gana |
Do’s and Don’ts in Shirahshula
| Pathya (Do’s) | Apathya (Don’ts) | |
| Cereals | Wheat | Special variety of rice (kodrava, sanvaka) |
| Pulses | Black gram (udada) | Green gram (mudga), pigeon pea (arahara), peas (matara), Chickpea (cana) |
| Fruits & vegetables | Paravala, brinjal, mango, pomegranate, phalasa, grapes, garlic, drum stick (shigru) | Jambo (jambu), bitter gourd (karavellaka) |
| Others | Clarified butter, oil, milk, coconut water, sour vinegar (kanji), sesame | Betel nut, excessively heavy food substance |
| Life style | Massage on head, gentle pressing, rest | Excessive exercise, suppression of natural urges, use of uneven bed, night awakening |
Do’s and Don’ts in Filariasis
| Pathya (Do’s) | Apathya (Don’ts) | |
| Cereals | Barley, old shashthika rice | |
| Pulses | Kulathi, green gram (mudga) | |
| Fruits & vegetables | Paravala, brinjal, garlic | Potato etc. tuber vegetables |
| Others | Food with pungent and bitter taste | Milk, milk products, curd, jaggery, heavy slimy and channels obstructive food (guru, pichchhila, abhishyandi padartha) |