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Incompatibility by combination
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
Some examples related to the incompatibility of dietetic articles.
  • 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.
Other factors leading to unwholesome diet
  • 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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