Ayurveda Vata Dosha

Ayurveda Vata Dosha Location and Actions in Ayurvedic Medicine

Ayurveda Vata and other ayurvedic doshas are present and act throughout our body. Each of these dosha occupy some general places in our body. We can know about their vitiation earlier by noticing the change in those organs. Find the general actions of this humor that gives our body its dynamism and responsiveness.

The Place Of Ayurvedic Vata Dosha:

All the channels of body (arteries, veins, lymphatics, nerves, tracts, ducts, cellular spaces and channels in cell membrane) are the route of Doshas. Vata, Pitta and Kapha act throughout the body. They are in a dynamic equilibrium in the healthy state.

The activity is manifested in some particular place when the doshas are vitiated. This gives added advantage to discerning ayurvedist. Vata's activity is found more in such places:

1. Urinary Bladder
2. Rectum and Large Intestine
3. Pelvic region
4. Thigh
5. Legs
6. Bones and Bone Marrow
7. Ear
8. Skin

Vata activity is dominant in all these places. Rectum, large intestine, pelvic region are the chief region. Rectum are colon are the most important part.

General Actions Of Vata:

Charaka described the general actions of  healthy Vata. (Charaka Samhita, Sutra Section, 18/51)

• Energy or fortitude or inclination toward physical and mental activity.
• Exhalation or the act of breathing out.
• Inhalation or the act of breathing in.
• Physical or mental exertion.
• The movement of tissues and excretion of waste materials

Charaka further elaborated these actions of Vata (Charaka Samhita, Sutra Section, Ch. 12). Many of these actions represent the action of Air primary element in our body as well as in Universe. Here Vata is taken for Prana - the original source of Vata.

1. Maintaining the machinery of our body both in structural and functional sense.
2. The underlying basis of all of Five Vata - Prana, Samana, Udana, Vyana, Apana.
3. The energy behind all the voluntary or involuntary activities in body.
4. The principle that regulates the mind as well as inspires it.
5. One that stimulates all the sensory organs to perceive and recognize the sensations (Perception and Cognition).
6. One that stimulates all the executive sensory organs to act (Responsiveness and Action).
7. One that carries the sensations of all the sensory organs and takes the command of mind to all the executive organs. (The transmission of impulses from the periphery to brain and from brain to periphery).
8. One that regulates all the tissues in organized and united and homeostatic way.
9. One that regulates the growth and development of all the organs individually and in accordance with whole body. This refers to proportionate growth and development of body organs and our cells.
10. One that inspires the speech production from the cerebral or brain's level to nerves and tongue and other organs.
11. Vata is the cause and nature of sound and touch or olfactory and tactile function. Vata is the chief factor in the formation of ear and skin that are the receptor for sound and touch.
12. The psychology of excitement, joy, exultation, encouragement and motivation is backed up by Vata.
13. Vata helps in expelling out all the waste materials from the body.
14. Vata helps in removing the blockage of all the big or small channels of body.
15. The growth and development of fetus is regulated and maintained by Vata during intra-uterine phase.
16. Vata is the factor behind life and its maintenance.

Non-vitiated Ayurveda Vata is the life of all. It is definitely the strength. Vata is the factor that retains life and body (Sushruta Samhita, Nidana Section, 1/9).

Pitta, Kapha, waste materials and tissues are lame without Vata. They are not able to move. Vata is one that regulates their movement (Sharangadhar Samhita, Purva Section, 5/25).

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