Dosha Identification |
Why Dosha Identification Is Must for You?
The three doshas viz. Vata, Pitta and Kapha which help you greatly to identify, understand and take care of yourself lifelong, are eventually also the backbone of Ayurvedic treatments.
What Are The 3 Doshas?
These three doshas which are the mind-body energies are primarily responsible both for your holistic wellbeing, as well as lack of it. This is because the three doshas of vata, pitta, and kapha get easily influenced by our everyday diet and lifestyle. And this is how they lose their equilibrium. These doshas tend to either decrease or increase within in the body systems and this makes them to result in forming a disease.
- Vata, or the air, is responsible for eighty types of ailments.
- The pitta dosha, or the fire body humor accounts for forty types.
- The third, kapha, or the phlegm body humor, results in production of twenty types of maladies.
These doshas are highly substantial for balancing the seven dhatus or the body tissues i.e. rasa, rakta, maansa, medha, asthi, majja and shukra (juice, blood, flesh, fat, bone, bone marrow and semen), malas (body wastes), and ama (toxins).
Why Ayurveda Recommends Dosha Identification
Ayurveda is a holistic natural science which essentially provides preventive as well as curative benefits. Identifying the dosha which is dominant within you and which forms your innate constitution provides great assistance both in preventing an ailment and also to be curing it. Ayurveda recommends thorough identification of your innate and dominant dosha prior to starting with the Ayurvedic treatment .This is because all bodily activities, disposition and traits which are governed by the three doshas. And these can be more easily brought back to balance once dosha identification has been made. Moreover, this guarantees the apt diagnosis as well as treatment.
How Dosha Identification Helps You?
- Dosha identification enables you to assort your physical and mental entity.
- Mainly as to the dosha that shows maximum resemblance in terms of properties, actions, basic physique, mental disposition, timely reactions, likes and dislikes et all.
- This also indirectly discloses about the basic constitution and temperament to which you belong.
- Once you have identified your basic dosha, you can more easily regain your lost health and well-being.
Dosha Identification Is Supportive
Whether you are suffering from minor headache, or severe symptoms of joint pains or you need to combat repeated acne, weight gain or hair fall that seems to be interfering in your beauty and build; dosha identification works as a supportive therapy.
- Dosha identification makes you aware about the imbalanced dosha or doshas which are primarily underlying cause of the ailment that you would be suffering from.
- And therefore once the dosha identification has been properly made, combating the ailment as well as restoring natural wellness becomes much more easier.
- You would mainly need to follow the desirable pattern of diet and lifestyle, Ayurvedic treatments, Ayurvedic medicines, Ayurvedic Rejuvenation treatments and other holistic therapies.
Dosha Identification Supports Dosha Awareness
Dosha Identification enables you to at first assort your physical and mental entity as to the dosha that shows maximum resemblance with your entity in terms of –
properties,
- actions,
- basic physique,
- mental disposition,
- timely reactions,
- likes
- and dislikes et al.
This also indirectly discloses about the basic constitution and temperament to which you belong. Thus prior to taking up the Ayurvedic treatment, the Ayurveda Vaidya or the Physician would need to ascertain the imbalance within your system using the essential Ayurveda tool of Dosha identification.
Dosha Identification Discloses Imbalance
Ayurveda believes that whenever a disease takes form and sets into your system, the primary cause is imbalanced Dosha (body humor). Therefore, so as to combat the ailment, the basic principle to get rid of the same and also to restore and retain wellness, would certainly be of balancing the vitiated Dosha.
An Easy Tool
Dosha identification is therefore an easy tool for identifying the imbalance. Also, when you are experiencing the ancient Ayurveda wisdom of Dosha identification, you are able to take a more serious note of the maladies that the vitiation or aggravation of either of the three doshas viz. Vata, Pitta and Kapha, is bound to present itself within your system. Although in many cases you might have already frequented some of the ailments relating to the imbalance.
Dosha Imbalance Causes Disease
Ayurveda believes that imbalance of the Vata dosha (air body humor) results into production of 80 types of diseases or disorders. Whereas the fire or Pitta dosha can cause 40 types and Kapha dosha (phlegm) would stand responsible for 20 types of ailments.
- Vata Dosha imbalance may result into diseases like muscular cramps, joint pains, stiffness, palpitations, deafness, partial loss of vision etc.
- Ailments like burning sensation in the entire body, excessive perspiration, foul body odour, fainting, mouth ulcers etc demonstrate of Pitta dosha imbalance.
- Kapha dosha imbalance and vitiation presents itself in the form of diseases like drowsiness, lethargy, excessive sleep, obesity, suppression of digestion, urticaria et al.
Significance of Dosha Identification
Ayurveda believes that whenever a disease takes form and sets into your system, the primary cause would be the imbalanced Dosha (body humor). Therefore, so as to combat the ailment, the basic principle to get rid of the dosha imbalance and also to restore and retain wellness, would certainly be of balancing the vitiated Dosha. Dosha identification therefore is an easy tool for identifying the dosha imbalance.
There Is More!
Also, when you are experiencing the ancient Ayurveda wisdom of Dosha identification, you are able to take a more serious note of the maladies that you experience. This is because these do relate to the vitiation or aggravation of either of the three doshas viz. Vata, Pitta and Kapha, is bound to present itself within your system.
- Therefore, keeping the doshas in balanced state is important to promote positive health.
- Due to stress, improper diet and lifestyle patterns, seasonal, pollution, toxins and other reasons there can be imbalances that alter the body state creating illness.
- So as to restore good health, Ayurveda believes it to be mandatory to provide proper focus and consideration to your basic dosha which may be brought about by Dosha identification.
Article Published here
Dr Sonica Krishan’s new book Healthy Living through Dosha Healing (Ayurveda) Book details the topic.
About the Author:
Dr Sonica Krishan is Author and Speaker in Healthy and Joyous Living through Ayurveda, Meditation, Yoga and other Contemplative practices. She is a leading Ayurveda Professional in India. She is also Health Writer, Columnist, Editor, Ayurveda Consultant at Herboveda and Holistic Healing Coach. Dr Sonica is open for National as well as International Collaborations with interested people / institutions in fields of Ayurveda, Meditation and Yoga.
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