| Pathya (Do’s) | Apathya (Don’ts) | |
| Cereals | Old rice, wheat, special varieties of rice (kodrava, sanvaka), barley | |
| Pulses | Soup of green gram (mudga) | |
| Fruits & vegetables | Bathua, makoya, brinjal, patola, grapes | Potato and other tubers mustard leaf vegetable |
| Others | Light food, cow’s milk, goat’s milk, clarified butter, cardamom, garlic, luke warm water, haritaki, black pepper, dry ginger, long pepper, honey | Dust, smoke, cereals causing burning sensation and acidity with poor digestion (vidahianna), fish, contaminated/rotten food, contaminated water, cold food stuff, cold water, dry food |
| Life style | Day sleeping, sudation, therapeutic purgation (virecana), smoking, massage | Therapeutic enema (vasti), snuffing, therapeutic blood letting, physical exercise, suppression of natural urges |