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Diet articles and regimen of diet

Dried Pippali subdues the Vayu and Kapha, acts as a spermatopoietic and slightly soothes the Pitta. Green or immatured Marica is sweet of digestion, heavy and phlegmagoguic in its effect. Dry Marica has a pungent taste, is light of digestion and heat-making in its potency. It is anti-spermatopoietic, destroys the Vayu and Kapha, and slightly subdues the Pitta. The white Marica is neither too cooling nor too heat-making in its potency, is more efficacious…

Knowledge of taste etc of drugs

It is needless to say that the hypothesis is based on erroneous data, inasmuch as the fact of acid digestion (acid taste developed at the close of the digestive process or reactionary acidity) is contrary both to the properties of matter and the collective experience of the race embodied in the dictum of the Shastras, and which should be rather ascribed to the acid taste of the Pitta remaining in an undigested or un…

Knowledge of liquid substances

Clarified butter made of cow milk is sweet in digestion, and cool in its potency. It subdues the deranged Vayu and Pitta, and serves to eliminate poison from the system. It improves the eyesight and possesses excellent tonic and invigorating properties. Cow-butter, in its clarified state, is the best of all kinds of butter. Clarified butter made of the milk of a s…

Examination of the patient

The digestive fire of the Vishama kind brings on diseases characterised by the derangement of the Vayu. A keen (Tikshna) digestive fire brings on bilious (Pittaja) affections, while a sluggish (Manda) fire gives rise to diseases marked by a deranged state of the Kapha. Endeavours should be made to keep the digestive fire o…

The Measure of the Stomach Capacity (kukshi-vimana)

…when dealing with a patient; who has digested his last meal but whose stomach morbid humors and is inactive and heavy and who is averse to food medicine should be administered at the meal time with a view to helping the digestion of the remaining morbid matter in the stomach and the stimulation of the digestive fire. But if the patient has not digested his last meal, this procedure is not to be followed. For, the digestive fire that has been enfeebled by the chyme-disorder is unable to digest, at one and the same time, the vitiated hu…

The therapeutics of Wounds (tri-marma-cikitsa)

102. If the pain be greater at the end of digestion, unctuous purgatives should be given. If pain be greater during digestion, mild purgatives of sweet fruits should be given. If just after food, during and at the end of digestion, if the pain remains uniformly severe, a severe purgative prepared with the radix-group of drugs should be given.

Oleation Therapy (Sneha)

70. The oleation draught, quaffed by him whose assimilative region has an excess of Pitta and whose digestive fire is very powerful, is soon consumed to nothing by the heat of the digestive fire.

Discussion among Sages regarding Tastes (Rasa)

57-58. Hereafter we shall give a description of the post-digestive changes affecting tastes. Substances of the pungent, bitter and astringent tastes are, on digestion, generally converted into pungent tastes. The acid taste becomes on digestion acid, and the sweet becomes sweet, so also the salt taste becomes sweet

The group of meats (Mamsa)

69-69½. The flesh of the common quail is astringent, sweet in taste, light, highly promotive of the digestive fire, alleviative of tridiscordance and pungent on digestion.

The Measure of Tastes (rasa-vimana)

25-(4). Eat after the digestion of the previous meal. The food that is eaten while the previous meal is lying undigested in the stomach, getting mixed with the semi-digested chyme of the previous meal, immediately provokes all the humors The food taken when the previous meal has been fully digested, the humors have returned to their normal…

The Measure of Depopulation through Epidemics (uddhvamsa-vimana)

…reya made answer. “The physicians having regard to the factors of the bodily constitution) etiology, clime and season in so far as these have a bearing, give hot beverages to the fever-patient with a view to helping his digestion. For, fever arises from the stomach and the remedies generally used for disorders arising from the stomach own their virtue to their digestive, emetic and depletive action. Hot beverages promote digestion; that is why the physicians generally prescribe then to the fever-parents.

The Three methods of investigation (trividha-vimana)

8. The following data are also to be gleaned by the method, of inference. Thus, the digestive fire is to be deter mined by the patient’s power of digestion, strength by his capacity for exercise, sense-organs like ear etc,, by their clarity of perception, the mind by the power of concentration, the understanding by the purposeful nature of the action, passion by the strength of attachment, infatuation…

The Treatment of Disease (roga-bhishaj-jiti-vimana)

40. For instance, we infer digestive fire from the power of digestion, strength from the power to exercise, one’s sense of hearing etc., from one’s capacity to perceive sound and other sense-objects

Fruits plucked with the Hand (kara-pracita)

…red once every month, and the wise pharmacist should take- care to see that the stirring up is thorough. At the end of the year, it should be taken with honey and ghee every morning, with due regard to one's strength of digestion. Wholesome meals should be eaten only after complete digestion of the medicine. This is the procedure laid down in the case of all metals.

The therapeutics of Abdominal Disease (udara-cikitsa)

16-19. Loss of hunger, very slow digestion of sweet, very unctuous and heavy food, misdigestion of all food ingested, inability to discriminate between the conditions of digestion and. indigestion, intolerance to surfeit-meal, slight edema of the feet, constant loss of strength, shortness of breath even on slight exertion, increase and accumulation of…

The therapeutics of Assimilation disorders (grahani-dosha-cikitsa)

10. Further, digestion being continued, the food becomes acid in the next stage of digestion and while it is coming out of the stomach it excites the secretion of limpid bile.

The therapeutics of Gynecic Disorders (yoni-vyapad-cikitsa)

312. At the end of digestion the diseases of Vata; during the stage of digestion the diseases of Pitta; and just after meals diseases born of Kapha, generally become aggravated.

Knowledge of doshas etc

Pigmentations or colouring (Ragakrit), the digestion of food and metabolism of tissues (Paktikrit), the vitalisation and nutrition of the protaplasmic cells (Ojakrit), the origination and preservation[2] of eye-sight (Teja-Krit), the germination of heat and maintenance of the temperature of the body (Ushma-Krit), and the origination of the faculty of intellecti…

Questions concerning wounds

By the ordination of fate or necessity (unfathomable natural cause), the Pitta, located in the region between the stomach (Amashaya) and the intestines (Pakvashaya), helps the digestion of the four kinds of food such as drink and edibles etc.) partaken of by a living subject, and purges off the residue or impure morbiferous matter in the shape of urine and excreta after the completion of the process. Even thus located, it keeps up the temperature in its other distant locations (skin, etc.) i…

Knowledge of categories of drugs

…e deranged Vayu, while cooling potency, plastive potency, and that of engendering slime subdue the deranged Pitta. Keenness, parchifying and non-slimy potencies conquer the deranged Kapha. Substances, which are heavy in digestion, destroy the deranged Vayu and Pitta, while those which are light in digestion (easily digestible substances) prove curative in respect of the deranged Kapha.

Canal da respiração

Alimento (Ahara) - Todos os itens de alimentação devem ser de fácil digestão e servido quentes. Arroz integral, trigo, feijão moyashi, horse gram (Macrotyloma uniflorum), leite de cabra, folhas verdes e vegetais como Patola (Trichosanthes dioica), Shigru (Moringa oleifera), berinjela, alho, cardamomo, canela, pimenta, gengibre, mel, sopa de carangueijo, Krita e Akri…

Canal da água

…/ búfalo, buttermilk Peya - Jangala Mamsa Rasa, Khichadi preparado com arroz temperado e feijão moyashi, Shigru, sopa de legumes frescos. Dieta com propriedade Deepana (digestiva), e Laghu (leve para digestão), por ex.: Yavagu, Yusha, Tilanala Kshara ou Palasha Kshara, Vartaka Kshara, Swarjika Kshara, etc., dieta semi-líquida é aconselhada. Yava com Vastuka (folhas de Chenopodium album), Karela (Momordica charantia) são aconselhados.

Canal do plasma

Ahara - Alimentos que são pesados para digestão como alimentos fritos, doces, todos os laticínios (exceto buttermilk), Dadhi, Matsya, Guda, Ksheera, Upodika, Masha, preparações de Pishta feitas de ervilhas verdes, vegetais crus e saladas, batatas, alimentos azedos como tomate, limão, tamarindo etc.

Canal do sangue

Ahara - Viruddha Ahara, Adhyashana (comer antes da digestão do alimento ingerido previamente), excesso de alimentos azedos e salgados, exercício após refeições pesadas, Masha (Vigna mungo), rabanete, produtos de farinha refinada, fermentados, coalhada, peixe, rapadura.

Canal da gordura

…lto índice glicêmico, uso de bebidas frias, ingestão de óleo, Ghee (gordura) hidrogenado, alimentos fritos, indulgência em carnes, especialmente de animais terrestres de habitat úmido, comer antes da digestão completa da ultima refeição, comer em horários impróprios e em quantidades variadas.

Canal urinário

Ahara - Comidas e bebidas frias, alimentos gordurosos, alimentos pesados para a digestão, excesso de produtos lácteos, ruibarbo, morangos, ameixas, espinafre, aspargos, Kapittha Phala, Jambu Phala, tâmaras secas, alimentos adstringentes, berinjela, feijão, quiabo, pimentão, tomate, pepino, uvas pretas, kiwi, sapoti, pêra, farinha de trigo refinada (Maida), mamão, alho, iogurte,…

Canal urinário

Ahara - alimentos saudáveis misturados com alimentos insalubres, alimentos e bebidas frios, alimentos gordurosos, substâncias pesadas para digestão, excesso de alimentos doces, alimentos secos, Kapittha Phala, Jambu Phala, tâmaras secas, consumo de alimentos adstringentes, berinjela, feijão, quiabo, pimentão, tomate, pepino, espinafre, uvas pretas, kiwi, morangos, pêra, pêra, farinha de trigo refinada (Maida), mamão, alho, iogurte, cas…

Canal menstrual

Ahara - Alimentos que causam distensão abdominal e constipação como: grão-de- bico, consumo excessivo de leguminosas, vegetais crus, Maida e outros alimentos pesados para a digestão, alimentos frios etc.

Canal menstrual

Ahara - Vegetais e frutas frescas, leite, Mudga/Mamsa Rasa Yusha e alimentos de fácil digestão. O paciente deve ingerir apenas comida preparada na hora.

Desordens de Vata

Ahara - O paciente deve ingerir tipos de comidas de fácil digestão, nutritivas e alimentos que não geram gases. Os alimentos devem ser ricos em fibras para prevenir a constipação. Esses incluem vegetais folhosos, saladas verdes, frutas, cevada etc. Alimentos que aliviam Vata, preparados com ghee ou qualquer óleo adequado, Udada (Vigna mungo), Shigru Shaka…

Desordens de Vata

Ahara - O paciente deve ingerir alimentos de fácil digestão, alimentação nutritiva e balanceada. Khichadi feito com arroz e feijão moyashi, com pequena quantidade de ghee clarificado, leite desnatado também é bom. Dieta não constipante, rica em fibras, alimentos como vegetais folhosos, saladas verdes, frutas, cevada etc., devem ser estimulados. Alim…

Cabeça e pescoço

Ahara - Alimentos cozido na hora, de facil digestão, como cevada, feijão moyashi, Momordica charantia, outros alimentos amargos, ghee, água morna etc., devem ser consumidos.

Cabeça e pescoço

Ahara - Alimentos cozido na hora, de fácil digestão, como cevada, feijão moyashi, Momordica charantia, outros alimentos amargos, ghee, água morna etc., devem ser consumidos.

Cabeça e pescoço

Ahara - Alimentos cozidos recentemente e de fácil digestão, como Purana Ghrita, arroz Shali / Shashtika, leite de vaca, moringa, uva, Momordica charantia, buttermilk, água de coco etc., devem ser consumidos.