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General Characteristics
Any person visiting an ayurvedic physician for
consultation is eager to know about his/her 'prakriti.'
Prakriti is a set of some physical mental sensory,
motor and spiritual character of an individual. These are decided at the
time of conception of that individual. Therefore, constitution or prakriti
is a highly individual thing, since it is decided at the time of
conception as the individual develops in the womb. Accordingly, the
individual exhibits certain instincts, certain emotional and response
patterns depending upon the combination and predominance of tridosha's .
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Since there are three dosha's, we have seven broad
categories of physical constitution.
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Predominance of single dosh three in number or
singular vat or singular pitt or singular kaft.
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Three combinations with simultaneous
predominance of two dosha's namely. Valt pitta,, vat kaff,
pittakaf, predominant.
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A highly desirable but equally rare
constitution called samdhatu prakriti.
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Similar the mental constitution can be classified
into broad 16 categories seven due to predominance of satve six due to
predominance of Rajas and remaining three -----" of Tamas |
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Therefore any and every individual will belong to
one of the physical or 16 mental constitution but this mixture will be
highly specific. |
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