What prakriti means in classical texts, and how it is used.
Dosha & Constitution
Most people who use Ayurveda also use conventional medicine. Doing both well requires a few specific habits and a clear sense of what each is for.
Dosha & Constitution
Ayurveda has a developed account of mental states and a category of treatment addressing them. Where that sits relative to contemporary mental health care needs stating carefully.
Dosha & Constitution
Ojas is a classical concept frequently translated as immunity in contemporary material. That translation is doing a lot of work it cannot support.
Dosha & Constitution
Beyond the doshas, classical physiology describes seven tissues formed in sequence and a system of channels through which everything moves. It is worth knowing what the model claims.
Dosha & Constitution
The classical position is that prakriti is fixed for life, which has consequences for how the framework should be used and for how popular material misuses it.
Dosha & Constitution
Heaviness, congestion, sluggishness and low motivation are described classically as kapha aggravation. The response is activating, and several serious conditions present the same way.
Dosha & Constitution
Heat, acidity, inflammation and irritability are described classically as pitta aggravation. The management is reasonable and several of the overlapping medical conditions need identifying.
Dosha & Constitution
Dry skin, irregular digestion, disturbed sleep and restlessness are described in classical terms as vata aggravation. Here is what the framework prescribes and what modern medicine would ask.
Dosha & Constitution
Classical Ayurveda assigns dosha predominance to periods of the day, seasons and stages of life. Some of the resulting advice lines up with circadian science and some does not.
Dosha & Constitution
The distinction between what you are and how you are is central to classical practice and almost entirely absent from the popular version.
Dosha & Constitution
Vata, pitta and kapha are functional categories in classical physiology. Understanding what they are supposed to explain is more useful than the popular personality-type framing.
Dosha & Constitution
The idea that a person has a fixed underlying constitution is central to classical Ayurveda. It is worth understanding what the texts actually claim before assessing what modern research has made of it.
