Simple guidelines from an Indian dietician

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GENERAL REGARDING DIETS:

"The best among others"

Food is best among the life sustaining drugs.

Water is best among assuring drugs.

Wine is best among fatigue alleviating drugs.

Milk is best among vitalizes.

Meat is best among bulk promoting foods.

Fruit juice and meat soups are best among saturated foods.

Salt is best among seasonings that produce relish.

Sour taste is best among cordials.

Cock meats are best among tonics.

Goat’s milk is best for alleviating phthisis, haemostatic.

Sheep’s milk is best for aggravators of kapha and pitta.

Buffalo milk is best for inducing sleep.

Mandaka (imperfect curds) have the greatest blocking effect on the channels.

Gavedhuka (millet type food) is best for reducing.

Kodo (millet) is best among diuretics.

Barley is best among foods which produce faecal bulk.

Shaskuli (bread cooked in ghee) is best among kapha, pitta aggravators.

Kulatha dahl (beans) is best for producing acidity.

Black gram is best for producing kapha and pitta.

Root of black pepper (Piper longum) is best of appetizers, digestive spices, alleviators of bowel hardness.

Amalaki (Emblica officinalis) is best age stabilizers.

Buttermilk is best for alleviating grahani dosha (colitis), swelling, piles and complications of fat (obesity).

Asafoetida is best among appetizer, carminatives, vata and kapha alleviators.

Alkali of barley is best among laxatives, digestives, alleviators of piles.

Daily use of milk and ghee is best among rasayana health promoters.

Roasted flour of grams and ghee is best among aphrodisiacs, vata hara.

Over eating is the best ama producer.

Intake of food according to agni is best for agni promoter.

Timely eating is best for maintaining health.

One-time eating is best for comfortable digestion and wholesomeness.

Intake of heavy food is most likely to cause indigestion.

Non eating (fasting) shortens life span.

Including all tastes in one’s diet is best for producing strength.

Indian dietician

Mrs. Bindiya Bhimani

Gujarat (India).

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