The Compendium of Caraka 3.2.7_1

3.2.7_1

Therein, a deficient measure of food quantity they declare to cause depletion of strength, complexion, and nourishment, to cause dissatisfaction, to cause udāvarta, to be unwholesome for longevity, non-aphrodisiac, non-conducive to ojas, destructive to the body, mind, intellect, and sense organs, damaging to the bodily tissue-elements, bringing misfortune, and an abode of the eighty varieties of vāta disorders; excessive measure, on the other hand, the experts hold to provoke all the doshas.