Sub-doshas

Question 1

Prana vata (meaning & function)

Answer 1

Vital breath
-Life force: supports the intellect, heart, sense organs and consciousness: spitting, sneezing, belching, swallowing, breathing

Question 2

Udana vata (meaning & function)

Answer 2

Moving upwards - Energy and expression

-Speech(outward expression of consciousness), singing, effort, energy, strength, complexion, memory

Question 3

Samana vata (meaning & function)

Answer 3

Moving evenly - fans the fire

-Stimulates/governs appetite

Question 4

Apana vata (meaning & function)

Answer 4

Moving downwards - elimination and birth

-Elimination of feces, flatus, urine, semen, menstrual blood, baby

Question 5

Vyana vata (meaning & function)

Answer 5

Moving in different directions - governs circulation, even flow
- general movements of the body, extension, flexion, blinking, circulation

Question 6

Pachaka pitta (meaning & function)

Answer 6

To digestion and transform

-Digestion of food, maintaining jathar agni and all other agnis

Question 7

Ranjaka pitta (meaning & function)

Answer 7

To color - transforms plasma into blood

- Gives color to rasa dhatu and forms rakta dhatu

Question 8

Sadhaka pitta (meaning & function)

Answer 8

To achieve, fulfil - heart and brain together
- achievement, fulfilment of desires: intelligence, grasping of knowledge, memory, ego, enthusiasm, energy: driving away delusions

Question 9

Alochaka pitta (meaning & function)

Answer 9

To see completely

-inner and outer vision (intuition)

Question 10

Bhrajaka pitta (meaning & function)

Answer 10

To light, to shine

-Lustre and shade of skin; absorption through the skin

Question 11

Kledaka kapha (meaning & function)

Answer 11

To moisten

- moistening and initial digestion of food (in stomach)

Question 12

Avalambaka kapha (meaning & function)

Answer 12

Double supporting

- supports the heart and lumbar region (lower back, chest and heart)

Question 13

Bodhaka kapha (meaning & function)

Answer 13

To obtain knowledge - sense of taste

- moistening of tongue, perception of taste, secretions in the mouth

Question 14

Tarpaka kapha (meaning & function)

Answer 14

To nourish, to saturate

-nourishment of the mind and of sense motor organs; unctuousness of the head

Question 15

Shleshaka kapha (meaning & function)

Answer 15

To stick, bind, cohere

Lubrication of joints: cohesion and binding all over the body