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Incompatibility by combination |
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- Flesh of any domestic or aquatic beast or bird
should not be eaten with boiled rice.
- Potherbs like Rohini and the Jata saka should
not be eaten in combination with milk or honey.
- Honey with hot water.
- Krsara and payasa.
- Clarified butter kept in a vessel of Indian bell
metal for ten consecutive days should be rejected
as unwholesome.
- Honey should not be used in combination with an
article or substance heated by fire, or in the
season of summer and autumn.
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Incompatibility by quantity |
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- Two oily substances (oil and clarified butter)
or honey and any of the oily substances mixed in
equal proportions.
- Rainwater should not be drunk immediately after
having honey and clarified butter.
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Incompatibility of taste, potency
and post digestive state of food. |
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- Sweet and acid taste.
- Sweet and bitter.
- Sweet and astringent.
- Acid and saline things are incompatible as
regards their flavour.
- Acid and acrid things are incompatible as
regards flavour and chemical action.
- Saline and bitter things or saline and
astringent things are incompatible in respect of
taste, potency and post digestive state of food.
- Pungent and bitter tastes are incompatible to
each other in respect of flavour and digestive
transformation.
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Some examples related to the
incompatibility of dietetic articles. |
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- Combination of fish and milk are bad as fish is
hot and milk is cold.
- Meat of domestic, marshy and aquatic animals
should not be taken together with honey; seanuna
seeds, germinated grains, milk.
- Vegetables of puskara and rohini fried in
mustard oil together with honey and milk is best
avoided.
- Milk should not be taken after the intake of
radish, garlic, etc.
- Leaves of Hingu or Jatuka should not be taken
with honey and milk. Mango, Karamarda, Mocha,
Badra, Jambuva, Kapittha, Narikela, Amalaka and
such other solid and liquid fruits, which are sour
in taste, become mutually contra-indicatory when
taken with milk.
- Motha, Kulattha, Massa, Vanatea with milk are
mutually contradictory.
- Padma leaves of vttarika saraka type of wine if
taken together are unwholesome.
- Hot honey or intake of honey by a person
affected with heat causes death. Honey and ghee or
honey and rainwater both should be taken in equal
quantity.
- Consuming milk immediately after eating leafy
vegetables causes fear of leprosy.
- Honey, ghee, muscle fat, sesame oil mixed in
equal quantities in the combination of 2, 3 or all
of three are incompatible.
- Food materials that are of cold and hot potency,
which are freshly harvested or very old, which are
uncooked (unripe) or cooked (ripe) should not be
combined together and used.
- Drinking of milk after long exposure to sunlight
causes haemorrhagic diseases.
- Taking food immediately after physical fatigue
is the cause for either vomiting or abdominal
tumour.
- Food taken immediately after getting tired by
speaking for long periods causes hoarseness of
voice.
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Other factors leading to unwholesome
diet |
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- Desa (Place)-
for e.g. Intake of dry and sharp substances in
deserts; unctuous and cold substances in marshy
land.
- Kala (Time)-
for e.g. Intake of cold and dry substances in
winter; pungent and hot substances in summer.
- Agni (Power
of digestion) - for e.g. Intake of heavy food when
the powder of digestion is mild (Mandagni); intake
of light food when the powder of digestion is
sharp (tiksnagni). Similarly intake of food at
variance with irregular and normal power of
digestion comes under this category.
- Matra
(Dosage) - for e.g. Intake of honey ad Ghee
(saturated food) in equal quantity is forbidden.
- Satmya
(Habit) - for e.g. Intake of sweet and cold
substance by persons accustomed to pungent and hot
substance.
- Dosas -
Utilisation of drugs, diets and regimen having
similar qualities with Dosas, but at variance with
the habit of the individual.
- Samskara
(Mode of preparation)- Drugs and diets which when
prepared in a particular way produce poisonous
effects, for example, meat of peacock roasted on a
castor spirit is unwholesome.
- Virya
(Potency)- Substances having cold potency in
combination with those of hot potency are
unwholesome.
- Kostha (Bowel)-
Administration of mild purgative in a small dose
for a person of costive bowel and administration
of strong doses for a person having laxed bowel is
incompatible.
- Avastha (State
of health) - Intake of vata aggravating food by a
person after exhaustion, sexual act and physical
exercise or intake of Kapha aggravating food by a
person after sleep or drowsiness, is unwholesome.
- Krama (Order)
- If a person takes food before his bowel and
urinary bladder are clear (empty) or when he does
not have appetite or after his hunger has been
aggravated are called Krama viruddham.
- Parihara and Upacara
(Proscriptions and Prescriptions)- for e.g. intake
of hot things after taking pork and intake of any
cold substance after taking Ghee (saturated fats)
are unwholesome.
- Paka and Samyoga (Cooking)-
Preparation of food etc. with bad or rotten fuel
and undercooking, overcooking or burning the food
during the process of preparation is unwholesome.
- Hrtsampat
(Palatability)- Any substance that is not pleasant
in taste is unwholesome.
- Sampat (Richness
of quality)- Intake of substances that are not
matured, over-matured or putrefied are called
unwholesome.
- Vidhi (Rules
for eating)- Taking meals in public is always
considered as unwholesome.
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