हठयोग प्रदीपिका (योगी स्वात्माराम - ज्योत्स्ना टीका सहित सटीक)

20 HAṬHAYOGAPRADĪPIKĀ
60. Diet of the following nature should be avoided
as unhealthy: food that [having been once cooked has
grown cold and] is heated again; which is dry [i.e.
devoid of fat] or has an excess of salt or sourness;
that is bad, or has too much of vegetables [mixed
with it].
61. In the beginning, fire, woman [i.e. sex]
and journeys should be avoided. For thus Gorakṣa
says: ‘Association with bad company, [basking near
the] fire [during winter], women and long journeys,
bathing early in the morning, fasting, etc. and hard
physical activity should be avoided.’
Basking near the fire, sexual intercourse and long journeys
to sacred places by foot should be avoided during the early period
of practice. After the novice completely masters the practice,
he may optionally have recourse to fire during winter, sexual
intercourse with his wife during the proper time (as laid down
in the Smṛti-s), and journeys by foot to sacred places provided
that he is a gṛhastha (householder). That this is the view taken by
the author is clear from the verse quoted from Gorakṣanātha.
Bathing early in the morning brings on cold, and fasting and such
other practices tax the body; therefore these should also be avoided.
Fasting increases the secretion of bile.
62. The following things are suitable to be
taken by the Yogin: Wheat, rice, barley, the grain
called Ṣaṣṭika and purified food, milk, ghee, brown
sugar, butter, sugar-candy, honey, dry ginger, the
vegetable called paṭolaka, and the five pot-herbs [called
in Sanskrit Jīvantī, Vâstumūlyā, Akṣi, Meghanāda
and Punarnavā], green gram and pure water.