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DESCRIPTION OF THE SWEET TASTE
“The sweet taste (as it is of the same nature as the human body, whose tissues taste sweet), promotes the growth of all bodily tissues and Ojas. Aiding in longevity, it is soothing to the five sense organs and the mind, and gives strength and good complexion. Sweet taste alleviates Pittal Vata and the effects of poison. It also relieves thirst and burning sensation and it promotes the health and growth of skin and hair, it is good for the voice and energy.
Factors that increase Vata and their Remedies
Factors that increase Vata:
Exposure to cold
No routine in life
Eating too much dry, frozen or leftover food or food with bitter, pungent or astringents taste Fasting
Too much traveling
Too much or inappropriate exercise
Suppressing natural urges
Abdominal surgery
Not oiling the skin
Remedies to balance Vata:
Foods: nourishing, well-cooked, warm, mildly spiced, moist
Tastes: sweet, sour, salty
Exercise: regular, gentle, moderate
Single Herbs: Ashwaganda, Shatavari, Haritaki, Bibhitaki
Herbal Supplements: Chitrakadi, Triphala, Brahmi, Chandra Prabha, Guggulu, Vasavaleha
Rasayanas: Arjuna, Ashwagandha, Haritaki, Gokshura, Shatavari
Panchakarma: Snehana (oil therapy), Swedana (hot fomentation), Basti chikitsa (Enemas)
CONCEPT OF VIPAKA (POST-DIGESTIVE EFFECT) IN AYURVEDA
The six tastes are reduced to three in their post-digestive effect, vipaka. Sweet and salty tastes have a Madhur (sweet) vipaka, sour has a Amla (sour) vipaka, while bitter, astringent and pungent possess a Katu (pungent) vipaka. These post-digestive effects relate to processes of absorption and elimination the final outcome of digestion. The first stage of digestion is in the mouth and stomach moistening, dominated by the sweet taste. The second stage of digestion is in the stomach and small intestine heat¬ing, dominated by the sour or acid taste. The third stage is in the colon drying, dominated by the pungent taste. These stages again are Kapha, Pitta and Vata, respectively. Herbs, particularly in the long-term usage, tend to aggravate the dosha whose vipaka they possess. Sweet and salty substances promote salivary and other Kapha secretions. Sour herbs promote stomach acid, bile, and other manifestations of Pitta. Bitter, pungent and astringent herbs increase dryness and gas in the colon, thus aggravating Vata. Sweet and also sour vipakas aggravate Kapha, while they alleviate Vata. Pungent vipaka aggravates Vata, while it alleviates Kapha. Sour vipaka aggravates Pitta while sweet vipaka alleviates it. Pungent vipaka tends to aggravate Pitta over a period of time. Post-digestive effect gives us another reference for understanding the effect of herbs, particularly in long-term usage. It is a unique concept to Ayurveda.
Ayurveda Panchakarma Clinic in Jaipur
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Temperament of Vata
Mental: nervous, fluctuating moods, quick but short memory, creative
physical: irregular appetite, irregular elimination, prone to constipation, light sleeper energy: comes in bursts, active, poor stamina.
Vata people have restless minds and weak memories. They avoid confrontation. Have active and sensitive natures and express themselves through sport and creative pursuits. Likely to be artistic and creative with a good imagination, they will sometimes overindulge in pleasures and are sexually the most active. Fearful, worrisome and anxious they are into questioning, theorizing and over-analysis. Often dissatisfied with and unable to sustain friendships, they spend money quickly, often on trifles with light, interrupted sleep of 5-7 hours a day.
A dominant Vata ensures that Tamasika individuals are the most down to earth, concerned about fundamental questions of practical existence, especially when confronted by more spiritual and less physical issues.
Tamasika Subtype Qualities
Pasava: Lack of intelligence, forbidding dispositions, envious nature. Excessive sexual indulgence and sleep.
Matsya: Unsteadiness, constant passion, and cowardice. Excessive desire for water intake.
Banaspatya: Indolence, Excessive indulgence in food. Deficiency of intellectual faculties.
Concept of Virya (Potency or energy) in Ayurveda
Virya is the energy, potency or power of herbs, designated in Ayurveda as heating or cooling. Herbs through their taste tend to heat the body or cool it and this produces the most basic energizing effect upon the system. Pungent taste, as is commonly known in hot peppers, chilies, ginger and other hot spices, has a heating effect. Things sour or acid in taste like citrus or products of fermentation like wine, yogurt or pickles, are heating. Fermentation creates combustion which releases heat. Salt is also heating, which we can experience by the burning sensation it produces on cuts or sores. Sweet taste is cooling, as sugars counteracts burning sensations in the body, Bitter and cold are often synonymous, as in bitter herbs like gentian and golden seal, which reduce fever and inflammation. Astringent taste has a constricting effect, which is the action of something cold like ice, as in such astringent substances like alum, oak bark or witch hazel. Heating herbs cause dizziness, thirst, fatigue, sweating, burning sensations and they speed the power of digestion. They increase Pitta, but generally decrease Vata and Kapha. Cooling herbs are refreshing, enlivening, and promote tissue firmness. They are calming and clearing to Pitta and to the blood, but generally increase Vata and Kapha. “Heating or cooling energy” means that these substances contain, respectively, the energies of fire or water (agni or soma). Through their energy the six tastes fall into two groups:
1) pungent, sour and salty cause heat and increase Pitta; and
2) sweet, astringent and bitter cause cold and decrease Pitta. Energy, virya, tells us the effect of an herb on Pitta dosha. Pungent is the most heating taste followed by sour and then salty. Bitter is the most cooling, followed by astringent and then sweet. want to know more?
AYURVEDA AND TASTE (RASA)
Ayurveda states that the taste of an herb is not incidental, but is an indication of its properties. Different tastes possess different effects. Usually we do not connect taste with therapeutic property. With foods we consider taste for enjoyment value. In herbalism, we note the taste of an herb more as a means of identification rather than as a means of understanding its effects. There is the general recognition that spicy, pungent herbs tend to be heating and stimulating, or that bitter herbs help reduce fever, but this has not become the basis for any classification of herbs by taste. Ayurveda recognizes six main tastes: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astringent. These derive from five elements; each taste is composed of two elements. Sweet taste is composed of earth and water; sour of earth and fire; salty of water and fire; pungent of fire and air; bitter of air and ether; and astringent of earth and air. Sweet taste is basically that of sugars and starches. Sour taste is of fer¬mented or acidic things. Salty is of salt and alkalis. Pungent is the same as spicy or acrid, and is often aromatic. Bitter is of bitter herbs like gen¬tian or golden seal. Astringent taste has a constricting quality, as herbs that contain tannin, like oak bark. Though the six tastes transmit the properties of the five elements, they are all based on the element of water, which manifests them. It is only when the tongue is wet that we recognize taste.
Vata Dosha & characteristics
According to Ayurveda, there are three primary energies, or Doshas. The Doshas are Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. These Doshas regulate all physical and psychological behaviors, from basic cell structure to the most complex mental functions. The Doshas are found in unique proportions in every individual. This singular combination of the Doshas is called our constitution or Prakriti, and it will determine our basic physical appearance, preferences, behaviors, and emotional tendencies. When the Doshas are in their natural balance with one another, our physical and mental states are at optimum health. When the Doshas fall out of balance, disease may manifest. Ayurveda seeks to return the Doshas to and maintain them at their natural balance in our individual constitution.
Physically such people are very tall or very short, non- muscular, with thin and bony limbs and have a quick gait with short fast steps. Skin is generally thin, darkish and cool. The hair is thin, dark, coarse and either kinky or curly. The face is usually long and angular, often with an underdeveloped chin. The neck is thin and scrawny. Nose is small and narrow, may be long, crooked or asymmetrical also. Eyes tend to be small, narrow or sunken, dark brown or gray in color, with dull luster. Mouth is small, with thin, narrow or tight lips. Teeth are irregular, protruding, or broken, set in receding gums. And while the voice is weak, low or cracked, speech is fast with interruptions.
Vata is known as the moving force. Vata is mainly concerned with the nervous system and all bodily movement. It chews and swallows food, moves nutrients into and wastes out of cells, circulates blood and air, and retrieves and stores memories.
Ayurveda Training course in Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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