Ayurveda says pathya or favorable diet safeguard the health and maintain the equilibrium o f dohas while apathya or

unfavorable diet adversely affect health and aggravate doshas.https://healthgivefree.blogspot.com/2023/09/how-to-detoxification-all-body-organs.html The diet can be of various types. Some incompatible Food, by

nature are heavy, they provoke the doshas and cause disease. While many of these foods by nature are very beneficial and

health-promoting when consumed alone but become incompatible when taken along with other foods or when taken at a

particular time, season or cooked in a particular container. Instead of benefitting health, they may harm the body and become

the cause of several diseases. This includes an opposing combination of substances which do not have an affinity for each

other. Such foods are incompatible because they corrupt the dhatus, aggravate the doshas and cause an imbalance in the

constituents of useful body secretions. They do not allow generated wastes to be eliminated smoothly. In this way, at times

serious problems develop in the body and the correct diagnosis of their cause becomes difficult. Prolonged use of unfavorable

foods slowly and steadily affect the health of an individual by disturbing the dhatus and their normal functioning and may give

rise to several diseases. Unfavorable foods are of several kinds.

The following are examples of incompatible diets.

Milk with: Yogurt, salt, radish, radish leaves, green and raw salad, drum sticks, tamarind, musk melon, Bengal quince,

coconut, Indian hog plum, lemon, monkey jack, cranberry, star fruit (carambola), blackberry, wood apple, pomegranate,

Indian gooseberry, angled luffa, molasses, sesame cake, horse gram, black gram, Turkish gram, Indian millet, coarse grain

flour of barley and gram (sattu), oil, sour fruits and substances, fish and milk, wine and gruel eaten together.

Yogurt with: Rice pudding, milk, cottage cheese, hot foods and other hot substances, cucumber, musk melon, the fruit of

toddy palm.

Rice pudding with: Jackfruit, sour foods (yogurt, lemon, tamarind and so on), coarse grain flour of barley and gram

(sattu), alcohol.

Rice with: Vinegar.

Honey with: Black nightshade, Clarified Butter (ghee) along with an equal quantity of old honey, rainwater, oil, fat,

grapes, lotus seeds, radish, very hot water, hot milk and other hot substances, safflower leaves, sugar (sherbet containing

sugar syrup) and date wine. Warm honey is prohibited.

Cold water with: Clarified butter (ghee), oil, warm milk and hot substances, water melon, guava, cucumber, snake

cucumber, groundnut, chilgoza (an edible pinenut).

Hot water or other hot drinks with: Honey, ice cream and other cold items.

Ghee (clarified butter) with: Equal amounts of honey and cold water.

Ghee (clarified butter): Kept in a brass container for more than10 days.

Muskmelon with: Garlic, yogurt, milk, radish leaves, water. Watermelon with: Cold water, mint.

Sesame paste with: Cooked Malabar spinach.

Salt: Its excessive and prolonged use.

Mustard oil with: Mushrooms.

Sprouted pulses and grains with: Lotus stems; also raw sprouts along with cooked food.

Black nightshade with: Long pepper, black pepper, jaggery, honey, black nightshade kept overnight and cooked in a

utensil in which fish has been previously cooked.

Black gram with: Radish.

Banana with: Buttermilk.

Such incompatible food combinations cause inbalance in the doshas and dhatus present in the body. As a consequence,

memory diseases may develop. Thus, consider a little before eating.