Simple Ayurveda Diet for common illness

Diet, Nutritional requirements – These two words have become mantra of modern day life style. People started using these words often in daily life to make sure health is preserved and protected. But, is it today? Or in olden times too?

The answer is even in the olden days before the concept of modern diet and nutrition even evolved, the Ayurvedic system talks about the importance of personalization of diet and even talks about nutritional values of each and every material available today with health benefits and seasonal impacts on those in human body.

Like the modern nutritional and diet systems, Ayurveda too explains about the common diet beneficial for the betterment and management of good health. According to Ayurveda the word ‘Diet’ literally means anything which does not disturb the physiological functions of body and mind and it nourishes the both.

The concept of life is based on three pillars. Food, Sleep and happy life or sex, these three decides the life of any one. Hence Ayurveda gives special emphasis on explaining these three pillars in detail.

Ayurvedic diet for common illness

Name of the condition	Cereals & Millets	Pulses	Vegetables	Fruits	Milk & Animal products	Contra indications
Fever	Rice and Rice flakes	Green gram & Horse gram	Spinach, Drum sticks and Brinjal	Lime, Pomegranate, Grapes and papaya	Cow, Goat and Buffalo	Excessive intake of solid milk products, alcohol and spicy foods, Non vegetarian foods
Diarrhea	Rice, Semolina	Green gram and Lentils	Coriander leaves		Cow, Goat, curd, buttermilk and butter Meat of hen and deer	Barley, maize, wheat, black gram, Bengal gram, peas, fenugreek leaves, drum stick, spinach, Mango, gooseberry, orange, pineapple, Meat of horse, sheep and fish
Dysentery	Rice, semolina	Green gram, red gram, lentil	Coriander leaves	Water processed with dry ginger as drink	Cow, Goat’s milk, curd, buttermilk	Barley, maize, wheat, black gram, Bengal gram, peas, fenugreek leaves, drum stick, spinach, Mango, gooseberry, orange, pineapple, Meat of horse, sheep and fish
Hemorrhoids (Piles)	Rice, wheat, barley	Green gram, red gram, Horse gram (soup)	Brinjal, Spinach, ladies finger	Wood apple, Gooseberry, Banana, Grapes, Pomegranate, coconut	Sheep, tortoise, Sparrow	Maize, horse gram, bitter gourd, ridge gourd, peas, cow pea, Bengal gram, excessive intake of milk , curd, Mango, Rose apple, Zizipa
Indigestion	Rice, green gram, black gram, Bengal gram		Spinach, cloves, cardamom, mint, snake guard, cucumber, lady finger	Gooseberry, papaya, watermelon, apple, Pomegranate	Cow, buttermilk	Heavy, spicy foods and drinks
Flatulence	Rice, wheat, green gram, horse gram, Bengal gram		Snake guard	Grapes, figs, orange, lemon	Sheep, hen, duck, fish, Milk, ghee, butter	Maize, field bean, math bean, peas, Bengal gram, leafy vegetables, strawberry, apple, cheese, Curd
Vomiting	Rice, wheat, green gram, peas		Snake gourd, cabbage	Lemon, pomegranate, grape, coconut, lemon juice	Goat, deer, rabbit	Maize, red gram, lentil, black gram, fenugreek leaves, pineapple, mango, banana
Abdominal pain or Colic pain	Rice		Drum stick, Bitter gourd	Lemon	Any soup	Cereals, millet, maize, wheat, black gram, fenugreek leaves, drum stick leaves, mango, banana, pineapple, curd, cheese
Obesity	Rice	Horse gram	Fenugreek leaves, Spinach		Honey	Sweets, oily foods, Non vegetarian foods & drinks
Contra indicated for all seasons and for all ages	Barley	Black gram	Mustard leaves Sunflower oil & ground nut oil Green chili, Alcohol	Wild Jack fruits, Wood apple (Unripe), Raw molasses,	Cow, Elephant, Buffalo – meat, Sheep milk, curd, unripe curd River water in rainy seasons