We all born with some unique “default” settings. These settings make us special among rest of the people.
Your inborn metabolic setting is your “Prakriti”. Prakriti means Nature. Your Prakruti is your first and foremost settings. This decides your first reaction when you interact with environment.
Your Constitution is a unique setting of characters and attributes. This setting determines- how your body and mind will instinctively react when confronted by a stimulus. Many of the traits you prize in your personality arise from and are dependent on these characteristics. Many of the qualities you dislike in yourself also arise from these tendencies.
Knowing your constitution allows you to know your body and mind better. You learn why there is no need to feel guilty for your dietary preferences, or for your mental traits like anger or fear.
Once you understand these traits, lifestyle change according to these can help you to get rid of the diseases and also help you in preservation of health.
Your Prakriti decides at the time, when you conceive in womb of your mother. The following traits decide the prakriti-
Once decided and fixed. Prakriti won’t change. It is a lifetime permanent condition.
Some people have an equal amount of all three elements (ether is combined in air and earth within water). Thus a more air-predominant individual needs to take in less air and more fire and water. A water person already has an excess of water, so there is a need to reduce the intake of water and to increase the fire and air elements in the diet and lifestyle.
Vata prakriti means, when there is dominance of the Vata Dosha over rest of the two doshas.
Thin frame people (mostly) either tall or short. These Vata prakriti people can adapt to any condition, very easily. They are careless. Quick and impatient. They want to learn everything but they know least in depth. Irregular patterns in life is the truth of these people.
Likewise Air, they move from one place to another place. Easily get upset, but forgets everything quicker than that. In one word they are- impulsive.
Emotional, perfectionist and always in time are the Pitta persons. They are sharp. Very aggressive. Their reasoning and logic is always on a stronger side. This makes pitta people leaders. They believe in making decisions very pin-pointedly.
They express the feeling with anger, mostly. But inside they are emotional and sensitive, most of the times.
Grey hairs or no hairs, is an easy trait to find them around you.
When Kapha is excessive, they tend toward water excesses like water retention, being overweight, or having bronchitis.
Mentally, they will find themselves lethargic, too attached, and sentimental. As we discussed earlier, each person is made up of a combination of these elements, yet each usually has a combination predominantly of two or all three of these elements.
These elements in turn, form three physiological principles, Váyu (ether and air), Pitta (fire), and Kapha (water and earth). Like the elements, people are predominantly made up of one or more of these doshas.
Basically, prakriti is a tool for your doctor.
But in haste to promote some products- some good marketing guys handed over this tool to common man. Seasoned information is the best marketing tool!
Yes, Prakriti is one of the basic tool for your physician. The best utility of the prakriti is to select medicines and treatments according to your body type. And this tool helps your physician to make right diagnosis and prognosis.
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