| 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 |