DIET AND HEALTH

One should eat only proper quantity of food which is balanced with the digetion (including metabolism)

Proper quantity means, the quantity of food which is digested with out disturbing the equilibrium of ‘dhatus’ and ‘dhoshas’ of the body.

Light food articles are dominating the qualities of ‘vayu’ and ‘agni’ but the heavy ones in ‘pritvi’ and ‘jala mahabhutas’. There fore, light food articles are highly stimulants of appetite.

Ayurveda strongly recommend light food articles along with limited quantity of heavy articles. When the food articles are heavy, eat only half of the stomach capacity.

A controlled diet helps the individual in bringing about strength, youthfulness, happiness and longevity.

Diet during sick

Fever

Keep the patient without food or with very light food at least two meal times. Barley water or sago boiled with milk and sugar is recommended. Bread, biscuits, meat soup, vegetables soup, garlic with ghee or butter is also useful.

Bronchitis or Cough

Curd and other things should be avoided. Sour fruits including banana and guava are also contra-indicated.

Blood Pressure

Avoid hot and spicy food, hydrogenated oils, ghee or butter from buffalo milk, colocasia, pumpkin etc. He can take all dry fruits, orange, banana, guava and apple, ghee and butter milk from cow milk, boiled vegetables. One teaspoonful Almond oil can be given to intake at bed time. Almond oil inhalation is also useful.

Jaundice

Sweet things and liquid foods like sugar-cane juice, orange juice and dry grapes are to be given. Vegitable and meat soup are also recommended. Avoid salt, sour and pungent tastes.

Ulcer

Articles of food which produce dryness and roughness should be avoided; Pulses, fried things, spices, chillies and sour things are also prohibited.

The patient can be given milk, cheese, ghee rice, wheat, amalaki( emblic myrobalan) and pomegranate.

Diabetes

Sugar in any form, rice, potato, banana, cereals and fruits are contra-indicated.

Fat also should be avoided. There should be control over the quantity of food intake.

Vegitables like Bitter guard, fruits and leaves of Drumstick, ‘patola’ and ‘bimbi’ are especially useful.

Vegetables prepared from Neem flower and Neem leaves are extremely good.

Regular intake of the two tender leaves of Neem and Bilva in the morning reduces the blood sugar