| 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 |