Food Related Factors (Aharaja nidana)
Food Related Factors (Aharaja nidana)
Ahara Nidana or the etiological factors related to food closely linked with the manifestation, transmission and progression of the skin diseases are as follows.
| Food Articles | Examples in Contemporary Setting |
| Atilavana (excessive intake of Salt) | Salt predominant foods like pickles, bhelpuri, papad, chips, namkeen used in excess quantity |
| Atiamla (excessive intake of Sour foods) | Fermented products, pickles, bhelpuri, sour fruit juices, sauces like tomato sauce, excess intake of preserved foods, curd, buttermilk, lemon juice, vinegar, alcohol, sauce, squashes. |
| Virudhahara (Incompatible foods) | Sprouted vegetables/grains with meat, milk with meat, honey with meat, black gram with meat, lotus stem with meat, radish with meat, jaggery with meat, milk or honey with leafy vegetables, curd with chicken, honey heated in any form or taken with hot water, alcohol with kheer, fish with jaggery or sugar, |
| Guru annapana (Hard to digest foods) | Pizza, cheese mixed foods, bakery products, kidney beans, paneer etc, food items prepared m ainly from black gram such as dosa, idli, vada; beef, pork; food p repared from flour.Regular intake of meat products Intake of milk shakes, kheer etc. |
| Snigdha Annapana (oily/unctuous foods) | Excessively oily foods such as biriyani, fried oily foods, meat soups, sweets made of excess ghee, milk etc such as kheer |
| Ati dravapana (excessive intake of liquid foods) | Drinking excess quantity of water/juices/madya/soft drinks/ milk/liquid foods like rasam/sambhar more than needed for the body |
| Sneha ati sevanam (excessive consumption of oil and fats | Excessive intake of ghee for medical purposes or as part of diet. |
| Asatmya ahara (Uncongenial foods) | Foods w hich are not suitable to prakriti, Desa (native to the place) such as fruits of foreign origin, eating food which is not native to the area such as Chinese food, pasta or pizza, soybean etc |
| Ajeernahara | Intake of food before the previous food is properly digested |
| Chilichima cha payasa | Intake of Chilichima (a variety of fish) in combination with milk. |
| Gramya - anupa audaka mamsa with milk (domestic, marshy animal meat with milk) | Non vegetarian food with milk, ice cream along w ith non-vegetarian food, milk products with meat eg. Dishes like butter chicken |
| Seeta- ushna ahara kramam muktva sevanam | Intake of cold and hot food together or intake of cold food soon after intake of hot food or vice versa |
| Ajeerne madhuphanita-matsyalakucha | Habit of taking honey/jaggery/fish/ artocarpus lakucha/ radish/solanum nigrum etc in excessive quantity and especially when previous food has not been properly digested. |
| Dadhi | Curd in different forms such as raita, lassi, dahivada, mixed in curry etc especially after heating and in autumn, and spring seasons |
| Fish | Excessive intake of fish or combination of fish with milk is said as an aetiolog for skin diseases. |
| Masha | Use of black gram and its preparations such as vada, dosa etc in excess |
| Mulaka | Regular suage of radish is said as a cuse and precipitant of skin diseases |
| Pishtanna | Food prepared after pounding rice, gram etc and preparations such as Dosa, , vada, dhokla, etc |
| Tila | Regular and excessive use of substances prepared from sesame |
| gude | Regular usage of jaggery and products made from jaggery |
| Ati madyapana | Excessive usage of alcoholic preparations is said as a cause of visarpa (erysipelas) and such conditions. |
| Harita saka and vidahi anna | Excessive intake of green leafy vegetables and pungent foods which cause burning sensation. |
| lasuna | Excessive use of gralic is a cause for visarpa (erysipelas) and such inflammatory conditions. |
| praklinna anna | Putrefied food |
| Kurchika, kilata | Excessive use of dairy products in the form of paneer etc are considered cause of inflammatory skin disorders |
| Gramya - anupa oudaka mamsa | Frequent eating of flesh of domesticated, marsh dwelling and aquatic animals. |
| Vamana vega rodha | Suppressing the urge of Vomiting |
| Pancha karmapachara | Irregular and or improper practice of Panchakarma procedures |
| Bhaya -sramasantapopahatasya seetodaka sevanam | Entering into cold water/ drinking cold water immediately after one is afflicted with fear, exhaustion and grief |
| Day sleep | Habit of regularly indulging in day sleep other than greeshma ritu (summer) |
| Vega dharana | Suppression of natural urges (Ref: Y.R.) |
| Ananupurvya seetoshna vyatyasa seva | Non-compliance o f the prescribed rules w ith regard to the order of restoring to hot and cold regimens i.e., sudden shifting from one extreme to another.(eg: exposing to hot weather directly from air conditioned areas)(Ref: Ca.Ni. - 5) |
| Papakarma | Indulging in sinful acts |
Last Modified : 4/23/2021
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