Causes of pitta aggravation

Pitta is said to be aggravated by excessive grief, anger, fear and joy, by severe fasting and excessive sexual activity, by too much pungent, sour, sharp (alkaline) and salty food, by heating foods mixed with or fried in mustard oil, by sesame oil cake and sesame oil, by exposure to the sun, by hot vegetables, by fish and the meat of goats, sheep and cattle, by horse-gram soup, and by sour kāñjī (sauvīra) and liquor.