Ayurveda Pitta Dosha

Properties of Ayurveda Pitta Dosha Useful in Ayurvedic Treatment (2)

Ayurveda Pitta humor affects our body based on the properties that are described in Ayurvedic medicine. This humor exerts its healthy or unhealthy effects based upon these properties. Find about its hot, sharpness, fluidity, sour or bitter and lightness properties that are used repeatedly in Ayurvedic Medicine.

Hot or Heat:

This property increases heat or burning sensation and it is opposite of Cold. This increases the temperature or heat or feeling of warmth in body.

Pitta is increased by this humor and Vata and Kapha are pacified. This property reduces the tissue mass and promotes the tendency for bleeding.

Excretory materials like stool, sweating and urine are expelled out readily. This property supports the appetizer and digestive function.

Overuse of this property causes Pitta aggravation and unconsciousness or syncope, thirst and burning sensation.

Psychologically this promotes restlessness, agitation, unnerving, drooping or sinking feeling.

Fire primary element supports this property. Sour, salt and pungent taste are dominant with this property.

This is helpful for conditions like obesity, atherosclerosis and Kapha and Vata disorders.

Sharpness And Ayurveda Pitta Dosha:

This property is opposite to dullness or slowness. This applies when some action is completed speedily.

Sharpness assists the purification processes in body. This increases Pitta and pacifies Vata and Kapha. This reduces the tissue mass and makes the body lean and thin.

Excretory waste materials are expelled out of body. All the herbs used for Therapeutic Vomiting and Purgation of panchakarma therapy possess this property.

This property exerts agitating effect and it causes burning, inflammation and discharge.

Fire primary element supports this property. Pungent taste is dominated with sharpness.

Psychologically Rajas supports this property with aggressiveness, easily agitated, harsh, rough, zealous and passionate behavior.

Poisons and toxic substances and pungent tasting herbs like black pepper, long pepper and dried ginger have this property. This is judiciously useful in various disorders of Kapha and Vata disorders like lethargy of mind, obesity, atherosclerosis and other blockage related conditions. It facilitate easy discharge from inflammatory condition. Rubefacient and Counter-irritant actions are also supported for the skin.

Fluidity And Ayurveda Pitta Dosha:

This is the property that makes one subtle and permeate all the space. It is the cause behind flow and storage.

Fluidity is responsible for wetting the body and its parts, for permeating all of it and for the dissolving power. This increase Kapha and Pitta. The tissue mass is gained with this property particularly those tissues in fluid medium like blood, lymph and plasma.

Fluid excretory wastes like urine and sweating is promoted and their excretion is increased.

Water primary element supports this function.

Psychologically this property stands for easy adaptability and mixing with new environmental and social conditions. However this implies many times assimilating unwanted or undesirable or harmful behavior from social contact.

Sour & Bitter Taste Of Ayurveda Pitta Dosha:

Pitta renders the taste of the person along these two lines. When normal quality of Pitta is increased, the taste will be bitter. When Pitta is vitiated, the taste will be bitter.

This taste refers to the taste that we feel in our mouth. Even eating something is not necessary. Many times we feel sweet taste, sometimes acidic or bitter or astringent or salty. We can sense the natural taste of our mouth any time.

This also means that if we consume too much of food or herbs with Pitta aggravating properties, the normal taste of our mouth will be bitter or sour depending upon the condition of Pitta.

The Hydrochloric Acid (HCl from stomach wall based glands) in our stomach and bile (in duodenum and rest of intestine from Gall bladder and Liver) are responsible for such perception and taste. When we feel acidity, burning in stomach, heartburn, nausea and vomiting due to Hyperacidity or Gastric or Peptic ulcers, the HCl is dominant. When bile is dominant or it is refluxed into the stomach or esophagus, bitter taste is more prevalent.

We need to be slightly introverted and self-aware to find the natural taste of our mouth. It will help to assess what kind of taste do we need.

Lightness & Clearness In Ayurveda Pitta Dosha:

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