Research Paper on Three Doshas in Ayurveda

 Research Paper On Three Doshas

Referred by: Mr S.C. Sharma

Presented by: Mr. Vinay Gupta 

    Q,1)What are three Doshas in Ayurveda ?

Ans. This nature and universe psychology is based on the three dimension which is fitted in everything.For example:In science there are three forms of matter i,e is solid, liquid&gas.As same there are three forms in atoms in matter itself called as "Electron,Proton&Neutron.In geography there are 3 latitudes ie is longitudes, latitudes and equator.In thinking process Negative,positive and neutral.

    Thus, as same there are three doshas described in Ayurveda under Ling sutra(that tells about the symptoms of disorders) which are called as Vaat., Pitta and Kapha. 




Q.2)What is Vaat Dosha?

Ans. Vaat dosha is the first dosha in Ayureda(a traditional Indian system of medicine).This dosha is formed with the combination of (AKASH+VAYU)elements&it governs movement,circulation,respiration and nervous system,In accordance to correspondence this dosha is represented on the top of the joint(AS SEE IN THE FIG. BELOW).Balance of (Akash+Vayu) element helps in the growth and development of body.


Showing Vaat pitta and kapha


    Imbalance of this dosha creates physical and mental symptoms such as joint pain,headaches,anxiety and insomnia.

Vata Dosha: Symptoms, Causes and How to Balance High Vata LevelsDoshas
Vata Dosha: Symptoms, Causes and How to Balance High Vata Levels
AUGUST 9, 2022

Vata Dosha Guide - Symptoms, Causes and How to Balance High Vata Levels

According to Ayurveda, every individual has three active energies inside their body. These energies govern various functions, like managing the mind, body- and even the diseases you will be prone to or the diet you should follow.

Vata dosha is one of these three energies; it is light, airy and manages body movement and motion-related functions.It governs the expression of your speech and the flow of your breath. In fact, it is the motivating factor for the other two doshas- pitta and kapha.

However, when Vata levels aggravate in the body, it may lead to various health concerns- ranging from chapped lips, dry skin, loss of appetite to emaciation, weakness, constipation, etc., depending on the severity of aggravation.

In this blog, we discuss such concerns and how to balance excess Vata with few grounding and comforting techniques.

Vata Dosha Symptoms

vata imbalance symptoms

Before we discuss remedies to manage excess Vata, let’s ‌look at the reactions that it may cause in the body:

  • Dry skin, hair, lips, ears, joints
  • Dryness around internal systems resulting in bloating, gas, constipation, dehydration, weight loss
  • Feeling dizzy and restless
  • Unusually cold
  • Muscle spasms, constrictions, unusual pains
  • Roughness of skin and lips
  • Excessive restlessness, anxiety, fidgeting, muscle twitching, palpitations, agitation
  • Low weight and inability to gain weight
  • Insomnia or interrupted sleep

High Vata may not be noticeable immediately, however, in a few weeks, some or all of the above mentioned Vata dosha symptoms might crop up. To keep Vata levels in check, it’s advisable to steer clear of the following triggers:

Cause for High Vata Levels

If your Vata levels are high, the following triggers may be the reason:

  • Extremely cold or dry weather.
  • Eating cold food can increase Vata levels.
  • Foods that are too light and quick to digest can increase Vata levels. For example, light poha.
  • Excessive fasting, excessive workout, extremely long brisk walks, and other similar activities for weight loss can increase Vata.
  • In winter, the cold weather increases Vata on the skin level, resulting in dryness.
  • Foods that dry up the mouth, skin, or stools increase dryness and aggravate the Vata.
  • Excessive sexual activity can also cause dryness and increase Vata.
  • Depletion of tissues can cause Vata levels to shift.
  • Injuries on the vital points in the body (Marmas) can increase Vata levels.

Recommended Vata Dosha Diet

vata dosha diet

The food we eat can largely influence the Vata levels inside our body. For example, foods that are too pungent or bitter may often aggravate the Vata levels inside the body. To maintain healthy Vata levels, sticking to a suitable diet is crucial. Favour the three S- sweet, sour and salty and choose warm, nourishing foods.

Here’s a list of Vata pacifying foods that can help keep your body’s Vata levels in check:

  • Hot soups & stews
  • Ghee
  • Avocados
  • Nuts
  • Coconut
  • Buttermilk
  • Olives
  • Eggs
  • Cheese
  • Whole milk
  • Wheat
  • Warm spices such as turmeric, flaxseeds, cinnamon, ginger, etc.

Also, please avoid the following foods, as they may trigger turbulence in the Vata levels:

  • Artichokes
  • Bitter melon
  • Broccoli
  • Brussel sprouts
  • Cabbage
  • Carrots (raw)
  • Bell peppers
  • Cauliflower
  • Celery
  • Chillies
  • Eggplant
  • Corn
  • Dandelion (green)
  • Kale
  • Lettuce
  • Mushroom
  • Green olives
  • White potato
  • Radish
  • Raw spinach
  • Sprout
  • Tomato
  • Turnip.

Apart from that, it’s advisable to avoid cold and carbonated drinks and not consume uncooked fruits and vegetables, frozen foods, and leftovers. Also, drink enough water to prevent dehydration.

Ayurvedic Herbs to Optimise Vata Levels in Your Body

vata pacifying herbs

Various naturally occurring herbs are said to have Vata optimising properties. The following list shares such herbs that may help manage excess Vata.

  • Ginger: Adding ginger to your food and tea can help lower joint pain and enhance muscle strength, helping you manage the symptoms of excess Vata. Ginger may help restore the optimum Vata levels in the body.
  • Cardamom (Elaichi): Cardamom is a healthy spice that can help balance all three doshas (Vata, PittaKapha). With excess Vata, cardamom can help aid digestion, reduce bloating and manage gas conditions, eventually pacifying Vata. You can add cardamom to your food, tea, or chew on the seeds - this also helps against foul breath.
  • Turmeric (Haldi): Haldi is a common kitchen ingredient in the Indian subcontinent and holds significant Ayurvedic importance. Consuming haldi regularly in moderation can help boost metabolism, increase blood circulation, and maintain a healthy heart rate. Turmeric comprises curcumin, a compound with anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-cancer properties. Apart from that, it can also help reduce excess Vata in the body. Our Turmeric sparkles make turmeric consumption more accessible than ever.
  • Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera): Ashwagandha herb is known for its various Ayurvedic health benefits. Ashwagandha powder is said to help reduce cortisol levels, manage stress, lower anxiety, and help overcome insomnia. In addition, the Ashwagandha herb has rejuvenating and Vata pacifying properties. You can reap the goodness of Ashwagandha by consuming it in raw powdered form, as a herbal jam, or capsules, or as Ashwagandha Sparkles.
  • Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri): Brahmi is an Ayurvedic herb with stress-relieving properties, which is why it can also help balance emotions. Besides that, Brahmi can also help improve sleep quality and bring Vata dosha to healthy levels. Consuming Brahmi Ghritham twice a day before meals (in prescribed quantities) can help maintain optimum Vata levels, improve memory, and ease stress.
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Home Remedies to Balance Vata Dosha

home remedies for vata

Excess Vata in your body can lead to many concerns, especially related to dryness and cold. Of course, that can be inconvenient. Also, in more severe cases, Vata aggravation may lead to anxieties. Fortunately, a few solutions may help manage and reduce excess Vata levels.

Let’s look at the following Vata dosha remedies and recipes on how to remove excess Vata from the body.

  • Herbal tea with Brahmi leaves: To bring Vata to healthy levels, you can make herbal tea using Brahmi leaves. Herbal tea is rich in antioxidants and can be a healthy alternative to caffeine.
  • Add garlic to food: Adding suitable quantities of garlic to your food can add taste and health to your meals, also helping pacify the Vata levels. You can start by adding a teaspoon of garlic paste to your spicy soups or cooked vegetables.
  • Ghee-cooked food: Ghee can help reduce excessive Vata levels, and eliminate unpleasant dryness. Drizzle over fresh ghee on warm chapatis or rice and enjoy its nourishing qualities.
  • Honey and turmeric paste: Make a paste by mixing honey with turmeric and take a spoon each day.
  • Add dairy to your diet: Dairy products and sweets, when taken in moderation, can help manage excess Vata.
  • Moderate exercise: Because Vata is related to movement, vigorous exercise may lead to an imbalance. Do moderate exercises that create stability and strength- like weight bearing exercises.
  • Oil massage: To pamper dry skin, promote circulation and promote joint health, indulge in an ayurvedic massage with a complete nourishment oil like Dhanwantharam thailam every morning before you bathe. Massage your scalp with warm Neelibringadi keram two-three times a week and let the oil stay for an hour or two before you shampoo.

Apart from these, it’s advisable to wear warm clothes, take regular head and body massages, avoid fasting for long periods, improve your sleep cycle, and indulge in stress-relieving activities.

When the energetic, flexible, creative vata dosha becomes imbalanced, it can lead to many health issues. A regular lifestyle that is grounding can help you achieve the balance of Vata dosha, so you are not carried away.

The following tips may help optimise Vata Vikrithi:

Key Takeaways

Managing excessive Vata is crucial to avoid certain health-related inconveniences. This blog discussed various methods of dealing with high Vata, herbs, and home remedies.

Let’s take a look back at what we learned.

  • High Vata levels can cause dryness on skin, hair, lips, ears, and joints and lead to bloating, gas, constipation, and dehydration.
  • Extremely cold weather, cold food, and other factors can trigger Vata Vikrithi.
  • To manage Vata levels, it’s advisable to consume hot soups, stews, cooked vegetables, and slightly heavier meals that aren’t too quick to digest.
  • To maintain healthy Vata levels, various foods should be avoided.
  • Ayurvedic herbs such as cardamom, turmeric, Ashwagandha, and Brahmi can help lower aggravated Vata.
  • Several home remedies and recipes, including natural herbs, can help manage Vata levels.

The best trick to manage your Vata and other Dosha levels is to have a healthy diet and routine with healthy lifestyle choices. However, this blog discussed tips and remedies to calm excess Vata. Hopefully, this was helpful.




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  • BEHAVIOR:  Those with vata dosha are usually described as slim,energetic and creative.They are known for thinking outside the box but can became easily distracted and their mood is highly dependent on the weather,people around them and foods they eat,
  • STRENGTH: Learn quickly,highly creative,multitasker. kind-hearted,flexible,"on the go", naturally slim.
  • WEAKNESSES:Forgetful,anxious,unstable mood,can get overwhelmed easily,highly sensitive to the cold,has trouble sleeping,irregular appetite and eating patterns,prone to digestive issues and gas,poor circulation(cold hands and feet).

Q,3)Is there are treatment in Chinese Acupuncture to balance Vaat DOSHA?

Ans. According to the Ayurvedic theory,human diseases are result of Vata,Pitta&Kapha doshas,Regulation of these doshas in the body can treat the diseases.Even with the help of acupuncture these doshas can be treated successfully:

☝VATA

1.To Reduce Vata:    Lu 7&Lu 9 ↓

2.To Expel Vata :    Li 4,UB 12,Li 20(Apply methi seed for automatic balance)

(Extra Negative Vata Energy)

3.To Balance Vata: Li 11, GB 20(Apply methi seed to balance energy).

4.To Treat Dread of Wind: UB 62, Si 3

(To remove excess Vayu)

Q,4) What are the disorders happens in the body if there are excess Vata and what are the treatment in Chinese Acupuncture?

Ans.In Ayurveda with the help of five deeds,one can expel the excess of three doshas,Poisonous toins expelled by treating on these doshas and also treats mental disorders.Excess Vaat Doshas creates Fear,Anxiety,Insomnia,Tremors,Nervous System Disorders. Treatment of excess Vaat are:

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EMOTION                                                 CAUSE                                              TREATMENT

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1.Fear,Anxiety,Insomnia,                           Excess Vata                                     Lu 7(Reduce Vata)

Tremors,Nervous System Disorders                                                                  Li 4, UB 12, Li 20                                                                                                                                         (Expel Vata)

                                                                                                                              Li 11(Balance Vata)

\Q.5)What is Pitta Dosha?

Ans.Pitta dosha is the second dosha in Ayurveda which governs physical,mental and emotional traits.It is associated with heat,metabolism and qualities such as sharpness,intensity,and determination.Pitta is the basis of all types of chemical activities happening in the body.In Pitta there is a unique balance of Agni and Jal mahabhoot(fire&water elements),Due to Pitta the digestion of food is possible.To maintain the body temperature and this Pitta also originates the hunger and thirst by providing message to take food and water.

        The digestion of food,it's absorption,nourishment and its transformation into energy is done by Pitta and this activity of Pitta the body remains radiant,soft&intelligent.

   Imbalance of Pitta can lead to health issues such as inflammation,skin rashes and digestive problems.

    Chinese Acupressure Treatment to Treat Pitta Dosha 

Pitta(Biles)

1.To Reduce Pitta: Liv 2. Liv 3, GB 34 ↓

2.To Expel Pitta: Si 44.

3.To Balance Pitta: Liv 3

Q.6)What happens if there is Excess Pitta in body and what is the treatment in Acupuncture?

Ans. Excess pitta affects digestion and increase anger in the body.Chinese acupuncture treats the following things in Excess Pitta Dosha:

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1.Anger                                          Excess Pitta                              Liv 3, GB 34(Reduce Pitta)

                                                                                                          St 44(Expel Pitta)

2.Blood Cleanse                             Anti Pitta Treatment               K 8, UB 17, Gb 39                                

Q.7)What is Kapha Dosha?

Ans. Kapha(pronounced"kuffa")t is based on earth and water.It can be described as steady,stable,heavy,slow,cold&soft.Spring is known as kapha season,as many parts of the world slowly exit* hibernation.(to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state).Kapha is the indication of stability in our body.In Kapha there is a unique combination of Jal and prithvi(water and earth element).In different organs of the body the necessary lubrication done by Pitta.In correspondence, the pitta exist on the mid joint of the fingers.(AS SEEN IN THE FIG).


    BEHAVIOR:

     People with this dosha are described as strong.thick-boned and caring.They are known for keeping things together and being a support system for others. Kapha dominated people rarely get upset,think before acting,and go through life in a slow deliberate manner.

  • STRENGTHS:Empathetic,caring,trusting,patient,calm,wise,happy,romantic,strong bones and joints,healthy immune system.
  • WEAKNESSES: Prone to weight gain,slow metabolism,sluggish(slow moving or inactive),over-sleeping,breathing issues(i.e asthma,allergies),higher risk of heart disease,mucus build up,susceptible to depression,needs regular motivation and encouragement.
Q.8)What are the disorders& treatment given in the Chinese Acupuncture to treat Kapha? 

Ans.There are the Chinese Acupuncture points to treat Kapha:

1.To Balance Kapha: Sp 9
2.To Expel Kapha: St 40(Good Pt. to expel Kapha)
                                 P 5    (Removes Kapha from Chest)
                                 Sp 2 Expel Kapha cased by weak Spleen.
3.To Balance Kapha: Gr.I- St 36,Sp 6
                                     Gr.II- Lu 9 softens&moistens kapha and sends to place needed.
4.To treat Kapha with trace of blood: Treat-Lu 7,K 6.
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Emotion                                            Cause                                                 Treatment

1.Depression,Grief&                        Excess Kapha                                   St 40(To Expel Kapha)
Attachments                                                                                                Sp 9  (To Reduce Kapha) 
                                                                                                                      St 36, Sp 6 (Balance Kapha)

Q.9) What Foods we  must have to take to Balance Vaat,Pitta and Kapha  Dosha?

Ans.
Balancing Vaat, Pitta, Kapha


Foods we must take to balance Vaat,Pitta and kapha

To balance Vaat (air and ether), it's recommended to eat warm, cooked, grounding foods such as root vegetables, whole grains, and stews.

To balance Pitta (fire and water), it's recommended to eat cooling, fresh foods such as cucumber, lettuce, mint, and sweet, juicy fruits.

To balance Kapha (earth and water), it's recommended to eat light, dry, and warming foods such as roasted nuts and seeds, leafy greens, and sour fruits like grapefruit and berries.

It's important to note that everyone's body is unique and may require a different balance of foods. It's best to seek guidance from a qualified practitioner in Ayurveda to determine the best diet for your individual needs.

Q.11)What are the Biological Clock accordance to Ayurveda we must take on Ayurveda  to Balance this Doshas and why?


Ans.In accordance to Human biology our body is like a natural computer which has an autonomous system which tells us when we take food,sleep, work etc.This system is installed and controlled by hypothalamus(The prime minister of all glands).
         In every persons body some work always happen in the rhythm.For example,feeling of hunger,feeling of  motion,awakening at morning,sleeping at night.This biological clock is related to limbic system.Thus, to maintain the harmony of Hypothalamus and body it is important to follow up biological clock.The biological clock in Ayurveda is shown in the fig below:





In accordance to these clock the following timings is given to the Doshas as below:

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Dosha                                                  Timings                                                              Reason
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1.Vaat                                                  12 night-8 a.m.                         Regulator of Desires&Activities 
2.Pitta                                                  8 am(Mor)-4 pm(Eve)                    Responsible for Digestion
3.Kapha                                              4 pm(Eve)-12 pm(Night)           Provide stability&lubrication







References 
1.Chinese Acupressure  Treatise 1
2.Manav Sharir Vigyan.
3.Maharishi Bhardwaj 
4.https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/vata-dosha-pitta-dosha-kapha-dosha#the-three-doshas


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