Prakriti in Ayurveda (Psycho somatic Constitution) Know Vata , Pitta , Kapha prakriti Characteristics

 

   📌    Prakriti means Constitution an nature of an individual which is determined at the time of our birth. It didn't change during our lifetime. 

📌     Many factors plays role to determine the constitution of our body, food and lifestyle of mother during pregnancy, Behaviour of parents at the time of conception, Sperm and Ovum of Father and Mother , Physical condition of parents, Nature of season and time during fertilization.

   📌   Mainly two type of prakriti (Constitution) we have Physical and Mental.

   📌   In the Physical constitution three dosha Vata, Pitta, Kapha plays major role.

   📌   Raja ,Tama and Satva dosha are responsible for mental constitution.

   📌   Some lifestyle disorders also occurs if we didn't follow proper diet and lifestyle according to our constitution.

   📌    Here we describe some features of every prakriti which is helpful to you for self assessment of your constitution.

   🧬  Mainly Physical constitution is of seven types.

  1) Vata

  2) Pitta

  3) Kapha

  4) Vata-pitta

  5) Pitta- Kapha

  6) Vata - Kapha

  7) Tridosha

   👉    Tridoshik prakriti ( Constitution) is best among all this types.

   👉    Here we describes some features of physical constitution. 👇

Prakriti Analysis in Ayurveda

	VATA	PITTA	KAPHA
Body Constitution	Thin	Medium	Broad
Weight	Low	Moderate	Over weight
Hair	Dry and Thin	Soft and silky and  Early greying	Thick and Oily
Teeth	Protruded, Big ,   Cavities	Moderate in size and soft gums	Strong and white
Gait	Speedy and Irregular	Medium and Regular	Slow and regular
Thirst	Less but Frequent	More	Moderate
Diet / Food habits	Less or More and Untimely	More and Frequently	More and Regular
Immunity	Low	Moderate	High
Digestion Power	Low or Moderate	High	Low
Time Attitude	Likes Gossiping	Time oriented	Lives behind Time
Memory	Remember things easily and Fast but forgot also Fast	Remember things easily and long time memory	Remembers Slowly but longtime memory
Self confidence	Over confident	Self confident	Under confident
Sleep	Moderate and disturbed	Moderate	Sleepy and very good
Nature	Credulous	Vigilant	Shrewd
Thinking	Overthink / Optimist	Rationalist	Pessimist
Eyes	Small ,Dry  and Dull	Sharp and shiny	Big , Attractive and Thick eyes
Bowel habits	Constipated ,Dry and Hard	Soft and loose	Thick and Oily
Tolerance to season	Cold Intolerant	Heat intolerant	Tolerant to both hot and cold
Communication	Talkative	Sharp , Communication with Analytical Abilities	Less vocal but good communication skill
Emotional temperament	Fearful,Moody, Unpredictable and Lusty	Aggresive , Jealous , Impatient	Calm, Attached and Greedy
Dream	Fearful and Imaginary	Exciting and violent	Emotional

   📌   By this Features you can deside your constitution, some have only one dominant constitution or some have combine like Vata-Pitta ,Pitta-Kapha etc.

 📌    After knowing your constitution take food and follow your life style according to that. It is very helpful for your healthy life.

  📌    This is very helpful to decide prognosis and treatment of disease.

  📌     But if you have some serious illness don't take self medication and decide your constitution on your own. Please must visit a registered Ayurvedic physician for that.

🧬  Mental constitution ( Manasik Prakriti )

    📌      Like, Doshik constitution , Mental constitution is also important.

    📌       It is determined by comparative predominance of , Sattva , Raja and Tama qualities. This are the three main mental constitution.

 Characteristics of Mental constitution 

1 Sattva :-

       Compassion , Ability to stay stable in every condition in happiness and in misery , Always speaks truth, Knowledge , Patience , Intelligent , Spiritual , Chooses right way of living.

2 Raja :-

        Impatient, Speaks truth or wrong , Cruel, Angry , likes travelling , mostly remains in misery , Ego 

3 Tama :-

         Atheist , behave like illiterate , lusty, lazy , Always remains in misery, Chooses wrong path to live.

  📌    But if you have some serious illness don't take self medication and don't decide your constitution on your own. Please must visit a registered Ayurvedic physician for that.