• Food is best in sustaining life. • Before taking meal due regards to the food should be expressed. • Food prepared in oil should not be served with spoon. • Food kept in glass container is useful in eye diseases. • Food kept in tin and vessels should be discarded. • Injuries on body get improved when food is taken on vata leaf. • Don’t take meal in broken plate. • Don’t take food without washing your hands and feet. • Don’t suppress the urge of defecation and urination before meals. • Enjoy music after the meals or listen the pleasant sound of children. • Take your meals at a comfortable posture. • Do not laugh during meals. • Food should be taken at regular times. • Food should be taken keeping the face towards east. • Don’t reheat the cold food preparations. • Don’t use stale food. • Don’t take food very fast. • While taking your food ensure that honey, curd, ghee, water barley and milk are consumed completely. • Extreme oily food causes laziness. • Food cooked in oil is useful in diabetes. • Food prepared with butter milk helps in dysentery, anemia and diabetes. • Extreme dry food destroys strengthened complexion. • Food having straw, hairs etc should be discarded. • A person who serves the food if is in the habit of losing temper frequently the food becomes like a poison. • Sweet objects should be taken at the start of meal. • Salty and sour substances should be taken during mid of the meal. • The best thing that makes the food delicious is salt. • Rough eatables should be taken at the end of meal. • Don’t take food at sunset. • Don’t take barley at night. • Don’t take dry and sharp substances in desert. • Don’t take unctuous and cold substances in marshy land. • Don’t take cold and dry substances in winter. • Don’t take pungent and hot substances in summer. • Avoid taking heavy diet when the digestive fire is low. • Don’t take light diet when the power of digestion is light. • A person accustomed to pungent and hot substances should not take sweet and cold substances. • Don’t take substances of cold potency mixed with those having hot potency. • Taking meals with wet feet enhances the longevity. • Avoid taking food immediately after exercise. • Don’t do physical work after eating food. • The food of a person whose death is imminent, is sad, unhappy cruel impotent should not be accepted • One year old rice immediately helps to gain strength. • Pious and hot food is useful. • Saindhava lavana is useful in eyes. • Fresh water, milk, or curd is useful. • Don’t take food which is dirty and has been served by opponents. • Dry vegetables, should not be taken regularly. • Curd should not be a part of your daily routine. • Ghee, amlaki, rain water, rock salt are the things which can be taken regularly. • Leading factor in causing impotency is alkali. • Don’t take roasted grain flour without mixing it up with ghee and sugar or in night or after meals or in large quantity • Rajmash and urd are two dals whish increase the bulk of feaces. • Of the pulses used in the form of soup, moong dal is the best. • Urd dal increases semen instantaneously and is used as aphrodisiac. • Rajmash reduces the quantity of semen. • Kulatha reduces semen and causes constipation but is useful in patients suffering from coughing, hiccup and piles. • Moth dal is useful in epistaxis and fever. • Masur is constipating. • Tila is conducive to growth of skin and hair • Except guduchi, patola and vetre all diets of bitter taste are non aphrodisiac. • Barring pipali and shunthi all pungent food are non aphrodisiac. • Shali types of rice are bowel binding; they produce semen and urine in considerable quantity.. • Wheat is invigorating, nourishing aphrodisiac, unctuous stabilizing and heavy. • Leaves of bathua are laxative. • Leaves of makoye are aphrodisiac tonic and purgative • Changeri is a promoter of digestion. • Leaves of tandulik are curative of intoxication and poisoning. • All types of leafy vegetables become wholesome for intake when boiled and drained of juice and added with fatty substances. • Munakka provides immediate cure for thirst, burning sensation, fever, dyspnoea . • Date is nourishing, aphrodisiac and is useful, in wasting, injury; burning sensation .Anjeer is refreshing and nourishing and produces wind in the body. • Coconut is nourishing and strength promoting. • Ripe fruits of bilva are difficult to digest. • Unripe fruit of bilva is sharp and promoter of digestion. • Ber is unctuous and laxative. • Amalaki contains all types of taste except saline. • Green ginger is appetizer, digestive and stimulant and aphrodisiac. • Lemon is appetizer, digestive stimulant and mouth cleanser. • Tender radish alleviate doshas and over grown radish cause diseases. • Tulsi cures cough, hiccup, poisoning, dyspnoea and pain in chest. • Dhania is appetizer and fragrant. • Onion promotes strength and appetite and acts as aphrodisiac. Garlic cures obstinate skin diseases.