Sign in to review this articleSoups are the fallback food. Whether under stress, ill, or recovering from illness or cleansing, soups give digestive organs a much needed rest. The recommended diet after pancha karma treatment is samsarjana karma, a progression of soups from light to heavy that build agni and gradually ojas as well. These soups can be served as well to help sick patients rebuild agni and ojas. Samsarjana karma literally means a "graded administration of diet". The diet is structured in stages from liquid to increasingly solid called manda, peya, vilepi, odana, yusha, and kichari.

Manda: Rice Water

Manda means liquid. When sick, most people lose their appetite. Manda is the first meal to be taken when the appetite returns (four hours). It is basically water in which basmati is boiled. Use 14 parts of water to 1 part of Basmati rice. Strain and drink the water. It should be served lukewarm with a tsp of ghee and a pinch of black salt.

Peya: Rice Soup

Peya means soup. Two to three hours later the patient should feel hungry again. Peya is a thin, light porridge. Make with eight parts water, one part rice. Cook until very soft.

Vilepi: Thick Rice Soup

Vilepi means thick soup. It should be served for the third and fourth meals. Cook with four parts water to one part rice. Add black salt, a pinch of raw sugar, and sauted spices in ghee such as ginger, turmeric, cumin, coriander, and fennel.

Odana: Cooked Rice

Odana means cooked rice. It is rice as we know it normally. It should be served at the fifth meal. Odana is cooked 2:1 water to grain.

Yusha: Mung Lentil Soup

Of all lentils, mung daal is the easiest to digest. Yusha is rice with yellow mung dal added served as a soupy mixture for the 6th meal. Akrita yusha is without spices, fat and salt. Krita yusha is with spices, fat and salt. Use four parts water to 1 part basmati and 1/2 part split mung lentils. Recommended spices are black pepper, dry ginger, ghee, and salt.

Kichari: Rice and Daal Mixture

A kitchari is any dish of rice and beans. Rice and beans together provide all twenty amino acids. Fats, carbohydrates and proteins are the building blocks of ojas. Cooked with ghee, kitchari is ojas building. Kitchari may be eaten for many meals and is very cleansing. It helps with recuperation and rejuvenation.

Mamsa Rasa: Meat Juice

Meat based soups provide more ojas but can also create more ama. Ayurveda recommends wild animals from a warm, watery climate such as a duck. There are three kinds of meat soups: liquid, medium, and heavy. Four to one mixture of water to meat is liquid. Two and half to one is medium. And two to one is heavy. Akrita rasa is without spices and krita rasa is with spices.

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