Ayurvedic Diet Chart for Epilepsy - Foods to Eat & Avoid for Seizure Management

Ayurvedic Diet Chart for Epilepsy

An Ayurvedic diet for epilepsy focuses on calming the nervous system, balancing doshas, and improving overall brain health. This epilepsy-friendly food plan includes nourishing, easy-to-digest meals that support mental clarity and help reduce seizure triggers.

Breakfast Options for Epilepsy Patients (Ayurvedic)
Cow milk with cow ghee	Roasted pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds
Bottle gourd upma	Banana-almond-milk shake
Soaked basil seeds	Fresh pumpkin juice
Jowar porridge	Watermelon juice

Lunch Ideas for Epilepsy Diet
Moong bean and spinach soup	Fenugreek-millet upma
Bottle gourd-carrot rice	Barley flour roti
Chapatti of mixed grains (oats, barley)
Moong bean-ginger curry	Pointed gourd curry with brown rice
Cow ghee-millet upma	Coriander seed and dill fruit soup

Healthy Snack Options for Epilepsy Patients
Popcorn made from amaranth or rice	Old jaggery kheer
Cow ghee-wheat flour halwa	Red rice kheer with cow milk
Brown rice porridge	Flattened rice snack

Dinner Recommendations for Epilepsy Ayurveda Plan
Celery-coriander hotchpotch	Green vegetable curry
Asparagus curry	Sponge gourd or bitter gourd vegetable
Red or brown rice gruel	Moong bean curry
Jowar roti	Barley roti

Foods to Avoid in Epilepsy (Ayurveda Guidelines): Baked foods with high soda bicarb content. Artificial sugars and chemical sweeteners. Sour and spicy foods. Dry, cold, and stale food items. Buttermilk, curd, and most dairy products. Preserved sweets and milk-based desserts. Milk (except cow and goat milk). Wheat and refined flour (maida). Heavy, oily, complex foods. Regular white rice, curd, hung curd, yogurt (especially at night). Recently harvested grains. Black gram and split black gram preparations. Refined oils.

Foods to Use in Moderation: Extremely bitter and astringent foods. Bengal gram and black gram. Wheat coarse flour.

Foods to Include in Daily Epilepsy Diet: Cow ghee and sesame oil. Ginger and ajwain seeds. Cow milk, goat milk. Chyawanprash. Warm water. Red rice. Barley and oats. Grapes and raisins. Vegetables like pumpkin, bottle gourd and bitter gourd.