What is vata,pitta,kapha in ayurveda

 what is vata, Pitta, and Kapha(वात ,पित्त,कफ) in ayurveda:


VATA IS BODY KINETIC ENERGY(energy due to moving nutrients in body and blood)
PITTA IS BODY HEAT ENERGY(formed in stomach or body organ)
KAPHA IS COUGH IN BODY(formed in mouth or in body)

  • According to Ayurveda, kapha(cough in the body)  is great in the morning.Its strength is very great at 4-6AM in the morning.
  • Then after kapha decreases and the pitt(body heat energy) grows which remains the whole day,
  • vatta(baody kinetic energy) increase at night.
  • Kapha(cough in body) is more in the childhood. that's why Cough, allergy occurs all the time in childhood.



  • in stage of adult kapha cause acidity,hyper acidity,ulcer,peptic ulcer etc.



  • in stage of old age kapha cause arthritis,back pain,skin problems etc.



  • Every day the occurrence time of vata,pitt,kapha is fixed.



  • the body shrink at night(because vatt is high), kapha increase in strength at early morning time,and throat dries out in afternoon time.



  • At night the air pressure is high and the cough also goes in increase,due to pressure of air cough goes down in alimentary canal reach to site of excretion,cough combine all the undigested food and remove it out easily from body.(excretion of fecal matter)
  • If you wake up late in the morning,the level of cough goes to low and body thermal energy goes in increase,that is why constipation sometime  happen late in morning.

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