The Compendium of Bheḷa 1.8

A person should eat according to measure, eat cooked food, carry a staff in hand, and walk a moderate distance; / having eaten according to the season, he should drink this smoke:

kaiḍarya, śatapuṣpā, tālīsa, aguru, guggulu, / and priyaṅgu, and flax, uncted with ghee, one should drink.

Wind impelled by food from the alimentary tract stays in the head; / it is subdued by smoke, and phlegm departs from the eyes.

A person who has eaten should not eat rice, flattened rice, / all flour preparations, and sesame seeds; when hungry, he should eat a measured amount.

One should not incur fatigue by journeying; one should not suppress any urges, / even having abandoned all duties; thus his lifespan is not diminished.

One should avoid an uneven, painful seat, and dangling the feet; / one should constantly protect the body from winds [arising] from a bad seat.

Excessive sitting, excessive standing, and excessive walking, / excessive sleeping, lack of a bed, and likewise excessive talking,

and whatever a man does to excess through activities— / physicians declare all this to be unwholesome for longevity.

One who is moderate in standing, sitting, and walking, moderate in sleeping and eating, / and moderate in talking and activities, lives long as a man.

One should resort to a windless place, [or] occasionally to pleasant wind; / a windless place is wholesome for longevity and always for health.

One should not perform work in the sun, nor likewise without headgear; / and, except in summer, one should never move about in the frost.

One should administer unctuous enemas in autumn, spring, and the rainy season; / and to one whose diseases require an enema, one should administer it regularly.

At the ends of sleep and at the twilights one should not eat, nor should one lie down; / one should not wander alone at night, nor enter a deserted house.

One should avoid a crossroads; one should not stay long on a mountain; / and at night, [one should avoid] the roots of trees, and likewise another's wife.

Hostility toward the king, ruin of the people, forest fire, quarreling among men, / and intoxicated or mad persons—noticing these, one should shun them from afar.

One should not associate with enemies; one should not cross a river with one's arms; / and one should avoid elephants, horses, cattle, and serpents from afar.

Madhumeha, consumption, thirst, wind-induced disorders, and other complications / do not arise from drinking wine, therefore one should drink it according to rule.

One should drink boiled water in measured quantity for four months, / beginning with Śrāvaṇa; the remaining eight [months], at one's pleasure.

One should eat an āmalaka fruit before eating, and harītakī after eating; / and at the digestion of food, one should eat vibhītaka.

Due to its astringent nature it overcomes phlegm; due to its sour nature, wind; / and due to its sweet nature, the āmalaka properly conquers bile.

Due to its hot nature, bile instantly goes and enters the receptacle; / it properly conducts it; therefore, a man who has eaten should eat abhayā.

The digestion of food, however, increases bile and phlegm; / therefore, desiring their balance, one should take vibhītaka.

Having performed the morning regimen, one should bathe with waters comfortable for the season; / healthy, of pure conduct, established in the practice of good conduct.

A wise person should never pass urine or feces into water, / nor should he spit [there], guarding his own life.

One should not twist one's neck unevenly, nor should one sneeze unevenly; / seated upright, an intelligent man should take his food.

One should attend upon mother, father, wife, or teacher; / and through the practice of respectful greeting, one increases one's lifespan.

Men who act unwholesomely toward the king and those who are traitors to him, / the unrighteous, and the untruthful—one should never unite with them.

This also they call health-giving, auspicious, venerable, and fame-conferring, / practiced by the virtuous of old, approved by Ātreya. Thus said the venerable Ātreya. Thus ends the eighth chapter in Bheḷa. Ninth Chapter. Now we shall explain the chapter on the four limbs of medicine; thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.