TABLE III
Activities, food and other factors that increase or excite humors

Factor	Wind (Vata)	Fire (Pitta)	Mucosity (kapha)
Yoga positions	Those that stimulate hormone secretions such as the tiroid and the adrenalin, for example, the candle on the shoulders.	Those that stimulate digestive secretions, such as the peacock.	Those that stimulate anabolic secretions, such as the lotus (Padmasana).
Activities	Excessive study, sex, exercise, fight, struggle, carrying heavy weights, falling from a certain height, running, long walks, corporal pressure, wounds, permanence in water, swimming, to fail to sleep, retaining energy, breath, urine, tears, vomit, feces, semen, sneezes and burps.	Rage, grief, fear, hard work, excessive sexual relations.	Sleepiness during the day, little exercise, laziness.
Food	Spicy, bitter and pungent flavors, most of the beans, and vegetables, stimulants, lack of food, irregular eating and fasting.	Acid, salty and spicy flavors, sesame and mustard dishes, fish, goat and sheep meat, milk, serum, fermented and alcoholic drinks, acid fruits, most of the green vegetables, fasting.	Sweet, acid and salty flavors, cold, greasy, heavy, emollient and demulcent food, sesame seed bread, milk, rice with milk, sugar cane beverages, fish, fat, vegetables, sweets, sweet fruits, integral flour, eating again shortly after eating.
Climate and other factors	Especially restless in cold, windy, and rainy weather, late, after digestion.	Blood is upset with the disorders of the fire and the frequent ingestion of incompatible liquids, oils and foods, sleepiness during the day, rage: exposure to fire and sun: hard work, wounds.	Especially restless in the morning and the evening; in winter and spring; immediately after eating.

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