Incompatible diet

Virudhha Āhara 

What is Virudhha Āhara? 

Viruddha Ahara is defined by Acharya Charaka as: certain diet and its combinations, which interrupts the metabolism of tissue, which inhibits the process of formation of tissue and which have the opposite property to the tissue are called as Viruddha Anna or incompatible diet.

The food which is wrong in combination, has undergone wrong processing, consumed in incorrect dose, and/or consumed in incorrect time of the day and in wrong season can also lead to Viruddha Ahara.

According to Ayurveda, every food has its own

rasa,virya and vipaka.

 

here, the rasa is taste of food, virya is a heating or cooling energy, and vipaka is the post digestive effect of food. 

When two or more foods having different rasa, virya and vipaka.. effect are combined, Agni (Digestive fire) can become overloaded,  inhibiting the enzyme system and resulting in the production of toxins. 

Yet, these same foods, if eaten separately, might well stimulate agni, be digested more quickly and even help to burn Āma (Semi Digested food). 

Poor combining can produce indigestion,

fermentation, putrefaction and gas formation and, if prolonged, can lead to toxemia and disease.

Today I'm writing about incompatible diet and Disease due to intake of incompatible diet. 

you can see the list of incompatible diet at the end of this article.. But now I'll discuss about types of incompatible diet and Which type of disease and problems occurs due to intake of incompatible diet. 

Types of Incompatible diet :-

According to Ayurveda there are 18 types of Virudhha Āhara (incompatible diet), which is leads to mithya yoga of Āhara. 

1]. Desh virudhha Āhara:-(food according to place:- dry/moisture etc..) 

It means to eat food according to the area or environment of your living place or country. 

If you are living in cold areas then you can eat spicy or hot food, but same diet for hot country's people is opposite. 

2]. Kāl virudhha Āhara :-(food according to seasons) 

menas take a food according to running season. 

for example one should have a oily food in winter but after spring it aggravates the kapha dosha. 

3]. Agni virudhha Āhara :-( according to your digestive power) 

If your digestive power is strong then you can eat the guru Āhara ( food which is heavy to digest) but your digestive power is weak then you should take only laghu Āhara ( easy to digest) . 

4]. Matra virudhha :- ( according to quantity) 

for example do not take a same quantity of ghee and honey together. 

5]. Satmya ( wholesome) virudhha Āhara:- 

satmya virudhha Āhara means the food which is not suitable to your body. One should not take it. 

for example you are suffering from fever then you should not take milk . 

⚛ Reason:-

Ayurveda strongly suggest to avoid milk in starting faze. Because during fever you need to maintain empty stomach and should eat very very light diet like soup of mung bean. No other food, banana , milk should consume in new fever.

6]. Dosha virudhha Āhara:- ( According to your body type) 

take a food according to your Body type,(which dosha is dominate). 

for example if any person's body type is pitta prakriti then, Person should not intake of Over spicy foods or ushna virya Āhara. 

7] sanskaar virudhha :- (Mode of preparation) 

Heated honey and heated curd are examples of sanskar virudhha Āhara. 

Heated honey is works as a toxin according to Ayurveda and due to intake of heated honey internal bleeding may occurs. 

8]. Virya virudhha Āhara :- (potency) 

for example :-

1. Milk with Honey
2. Milk with fish
3. Ghee with pickles
4. Milk with salty food

All are virya virudhha Āhara do not take combination of these. 

9]. Koshtaha virudhha Āhara :- ( According to the property of your intestines) 

If you have a mrudu koshths ( soft intestines) then you can eat more dry meal. But your intestines are already dry or hard then you should not take more dry things. 

10]. Avastha virudhha:- ( According to condition of food old/ new) 

If new cereal (e.g.Wheat) mixed with old cereal then it's an Avastha virudhha Āhara. 

11]. Krama virudhha:- ( according to sequence) 

One should take a food in sequence of taste like, initially sweet, saur and salty food and in end must take some bitter, spicy and astringent food. 

Reason:- after taking a food  kapha dosha increases and having of bitter, spicy and astringent food balances the increased kapha dosha. 

12]. Parihār virudhha Āhara:-

parihaar virudhha means a food which should not take after intake of specific food. 

for example after drinking tea, one should not take water. 

13]. Upchar virudhha Āhara:-

Means a food which interrupts in the action of your medicine, If you are suffering from any disease. 

For example If you are suffering from arthritis then you should not take a sour food. 

14]. Pāk virudhha Āhara:-

means a food, cooked by wrongly combined ingredients. 

example :- one should not cook the pigeon meat in mustard oil. 

15]. Samyoga virudhha Āhara:-

Samyoga means combination, wrong combination of food can generates many disease in the body. 

example :-

1. Milk + Banana
2. Milk + Nonveg 
3. Milk + alcohol
4. Nonveg + Black gram split
5. Chicken + curd 
6. Nonveg + Sesame

Reason why combination of Milk and banana is considered as virudhha Āhara:-

 { I } Reason is that, milk and banana both are heavy to digest. So it might considered as a agni virudhha Āhara. 

16]. Hrídhya virudhha Āhara :- (Desire of eating) 

If any person do not want to eat food at a time (due to some reason) so, It's better that person don't eat anything at that time. 

Don't try to eat forcefully and against of your Desire. 

17]. Sampād virudhha Āhara :-( quality) 

One should never eat low quality food, cooked in low quality oil or place of cooking is not clean. 

for example :- junk foods, food made by nonstick pan. 

18]. Vidhi virudhha Āhara:-

We should take a food as a vidhi ( by following rules and regulations for eating). 

According to Ayurveda we should eat food only after 3 to 4 hours of past taken food. If rules are not followed by any person then person might suffer from some Disease. 

Disease due to intake of Incompatible food:-

1. Rakta dushti ( cluster of bleeding Disorder) 
2. Strotas avrodha ( blockage of channels) 
3. Infertility
4. Abdominal Disease etc... 

According to Ācharya charaka,

The intake of unwholesome food is responsible for the causation of -

1. sterility,
2.  blindness, 
3. Visarpa (an obstinate skin disease), 
4. ascites, 
5. eruptions, 
6. Insanity, 
7. fistula,
8.  fainting, 
9. intoxication, 
10. tympanitis, 
11. spasmodic obstruction in throat, 
12. anemia, 
13. poisoning due to Ama, 
14. Kilasa type of skin disease, 
15. obstinate skin disease including leprosy, 
16. sprue, oedema, acid dyspepsia,
17.  fever, 
18. rhinitis, 
19. fatal disease and even death.

One more important incompatible food:-

means do not take a reddish or onion instantly after drinking a milk. It may leads to psoriasis. 

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