Kledaka Kapha

Question 1

What are the primary sites of kledaka kapha?

Answer 1

Stomach

Gastrointestinal tract

Question 2

What are the primary functions of kledaka kapha?

Answer 2

Gastric secretion
Digestion and absorption
Nourishes rasa

Question 3

What are the four qualities of kledaka kapha?

Answer 3

Liquid
Soft
Slightly oily
Slimy

Question 4

Kledaka kapha is responsible for what membrane in the stomach?

Answer 4

The gastric mucous membrane

Question 5

How long does it take the gastric mucous membrane to regenerate if it is dissolved by food?

Answer 5

72 hours

Question 6

What is the governing element of kledaka kapha?

Answer 6

Fire

Question 7

How is kapha involved with the pyloric valve?

Answer 7

Heavy quality creates mucous lining

Heavy and stable qualities help the pyloric valve close tightly, and stay tightly shut

Question 8

The liquid quality of kledaka kapha creates a medium for what to occur in the stomach?

Answer 8

Cooking, equal distribution of heat

Kledaka kapha helps the digestive enzymes to be equally distributed around a molecule of food

Question 9

What does kleda mean?

Answer 9

Liquification, hydration

Question 10

Why does kledaka kapha provide energy to a person after eating?

Answer 10

The sweet taste cause the blood sugar to rise

Question 11

Kledaka kapha is considered to be the mother of all kapha in the body.

Once kledaka kapha is absorbed from the stomach what is the path it takes to nourish the whole body?

Answer 11

Absorbed from stomach wall into blood vessels

Enters the plasma and nourishes kapha throughout the entire body

Question 12

Kledaka kapha maintains the ___ of the cells and tissues

Answer 12

Hydration

Question 13

What is gastritis?

How is it caused from an Ayurvedic perspective?

How do you remedy gastritis?

Answer 13

Inflammation of the stomach lining

Caused by excess pāchaka pitta in the stomach that burns away kledaka kapha causing gastric irritation

Drink milk and eat a bland diet

Question 14

How is a gastric ulcer formed?

Answer 14

HCL and digestive enzymes start to digest the stomach lining which forms an ulcer

Question 15

Which curvature of the stomach produces more kledaka kapha?

Which organ is this curvature closest to, and what is the function of this organ?

Answer 15

Greater curvature, or fundus

Spleen, filters blood

Question 16

When sleeping on the left side, what happens to the stomach?

What does this do to the acidity of the stomach?

Answer 16

The greater curvature goes down and the lesser curvature presses against the liver

Creates more acidity

Question 17

Sleeping on the left side builds the energy of what organ, and suppresses the energy of what other organ?

Answer 17

Builds liver energy

Suppresses spleen energy

Question 18

What happens in the stomach when sleeping on the right side?

What is the downfall of this?

Answer 18

Stomach empties earlier because pyloric valve is on the right.

The food may not be totally digested

Question 19

When the quality of kledaka is balanced it brings ___ ___ & ___.

Answer 19

Contentment
Satisfaction
Need for a smaller amount of food

Question 20

When a person has nervousness, anxiety, insecurity, loneliness, grief or sadness how does kledaka react?

Answer 20

By becoming sticky, thick, and demanding more food

Question 21

When kledaka is impaired what happens to eating habits? Why?

Answer 21

One must eat large quantities of food to build satisfaction

Question 22

In terms of the stomach what creates satisfaction?

How does affect quantity of the consumption of food?

Answer 22

Stretching the muscle wall
Kledaka kapha creates this contentment

If you eat a lot your stomach is stretched out and requires more food to reach satisfaction and vice versa

Question 23

What are disorders of kledaka kapha? Include both disorders of excess and insufficiency.

Answer 23

Excess kledaka:
Obesity
Excessive eating habits
Hyperglycemia 
Diabetes
High cholesterol

Insufficient kledaka:
Hypoglycemia
Peptic ulcer