Samāna Vāyu

Question 1

What is the governing element of samāna vāyu?

Answer 1

Fire

Question 2

What are the primary sites of samāna vāyu?

Answer 2

Small Intestine, Navel

Question 3

What is the main function of samāna vāyu?

Answer 3

Viveka: isolation, separation, splitting

Question 4

What is the direction of samāna vāyu?

Answer 4

Linear and outward like peristalsis

Question 5

What physical actions does samāna vāyu govern?

Answer 5

Samāna vāyu governs digestion, absorption, and assimilation.

Question 6

What function does samāna vāyu play in digestion?

Answer 6

It provides stimulus for secretion of digestive juices, and is closely connected with agni.

It moves the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.

Question 7

What role does samāna vāyu play in appetite?

Answer 7

Samāna pursues appetite by sending a message to prāna that there is too much fire in the stomach.
When one feels hungry samāna is awake.

Question 8

Describe the action of samāna in digestion of food.

Answer 8

When one eats samāna stimulates the secretion of HCL and opens the pyloric valve for movement fo food into the duodenum.
Samāna brings food into the cecum “the second stomach.”

Question 9

What action/movement does samāna vāyu have in the liver and gallbladder?

Answer 9

Because of the agnis in the liver, samāna provides the energy to secrete the liver enzymes.

Bile and enzymes from the liver accumulate in the gall bladder by samāna vāyu.

Samāna constricts the gallbladder and pushes the bile from the gallbladder through the bile duct into the duodenum.

Question 10

What are samāna vāyu disorders?

What kind of syndrome can a disorder of samāna vāyu create?

Answer 10

Loss of appetite, indigestion, increased or decreased peristalsis, bloating, lack of absorption and assimilation, and poor digestion.

Disorders at the belly button are associated with samāna vāyu.

A disorder of samāna vāyu can create malabsorption syndrome.