INTRODUCTION

Adequate nutrition is necessary for a healthy life, but consuming food without knowing the method of diet cannot provide good health benefits. The method of diet plays an important role in both the origin and treatment of diseases. Food is the life of living beings. Descriptions of many types of instructions related to the method of diet are available here and there, but the Ashta Ahara Vidhi Visheshayatana (eight dynamics must be measured before taking food) described in Ayurveda Shastra, visheshayatan, diet method (vidhan) have their own special importance. Acharya Charak has described the importance of diet method that, by consuming food in a proper manner, after proper digestion by the gastric fire, the Rasaadi dhatu are strengthened and the body remains full of age and strength. If a person consumes food without following the rules of diet due to greed or the restlessness of the tongue, then his digestive fire gets distorted and distorts the Grahani and Grahani dependent disorders arise. There is a support-dependent relationship between Grahani and fire. Therefore, when the Grahani is contaminated, the fire gets distorted. Contaminated fire cannot digest even small food.  That unripe food/ama on receiving the suktatva produces aama toxin which shows harmful effects like poison in the body.

Charak has considered Aam Toxin to be an independent origin due to the slowing down of the digestive fire. This common toxin contaminates the doshas, dhatu and malas again and gives rise to various types of disease groups in the entire body. Grahani is not a single disease but a group of disorders.