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   <li style="font-weight:bold">Sweet taste:</li>

   <li style="font-weight:bold">Sweet taste:</li>

Sweet taste pacifies vata and pitta while increasing kapha dosha, increases vigor, and aids elimination. Excessive usage causes polyuria (prameha) and other problems. While its absence may create illnesses related to vata dosha and pitta dosha aggravation.<ref>P. S. Dravyagunasutram. 1st ed. Chaukhamba Sanskrit Sansthan; 1994. p. 53-54.</ref>

Sweet taste pacifies [[Vata dosha|vata]] and [[Pitta|pitta]] while increasing [[Kapha|kapha dosha]], increases vigor, and aids elimination. Excessive usage causes polyuria ([[Prameha Nidana|prameha]]) and other problems. While its absence may create illnesses related to [[Vata dosha|vata dosha]] and [[Pitta dosha|pitta dosha]] aggravation.<ref>P. S. Dravyagunasutram. 1st ed. Chaukhamba Sanskrit Sansthan; 1994. p. 53-54.</ref>

<li style="font-weight:bold">Sour taste:</li>

<li style="font-weight:bold">Sour taste:</li>

Sour taste stimulates kaphadosha and pitta dosha, while pacifying vata. It reduces semen, and serves as a carminative, appetizer, and digestive. Excessive usage produces hyperacidity (amlapitta), and not taking it might cause a decrease in digestive capacity (agnimandya), among other things.<ref>P. S. Dravyagunasutram. 1st ed. Chaukhamba Sanskrit Sansthan; 1994. p. 54</ref>

Sour taste stimulates [[Kapha|kapha dosha]] and [[Pitta dosha|pitta dosha]], while pacifying [[Vata dosha|vata]]. It reduces semen, and serves as a carminative, appetizer, and digestive. Excessive usage produces hyperacidity (amlapitta), and not taking it might cause a decrease in digestive capacity (agnimandya), among other things.<ref>P. S. Dravyagunasutram. 1st ed. Chaukhamba Sanskrit Sansthan; 1994. p. 54</ref>

<li style="font-weight:bold">Salty taste:</li>

<li style="font-weight:bold">Salty taste:</li>

Salty taste  stimulateskapha dosha and pitta dosha, and pacifies vata dosha. It also decreases  reproductive components (shukra dhatu) and is carminative, appetizer, digestive, and moistening. When taken in excess, it vitiates the blood and creates oedema.When not taken sufficiently, it causes loss of appetite, and vata-predominant illnesses. The characteristic of salt is moistening (vishyandi). It attracts and dissolves in water. As a result of fluid retention, heavy usage causes blood problems and oedema. That is why salt is not permitted in certain disorders.<ref>P. S. Dravyagunasutram. 1st ed. Chaukhamba Sanskrit Sansthan; 1994. p. 55.</ref>

Salty taste  stimulates [[Kapha|kapha dosha]] and [[Pitta dosha|pitta dosha]], and pacifies [[Vata dosha|vata dosha]]. It also decreases  reproductive components ([[Shukra dhatu|shukra dhatu]]) and is carminative, appetizer, digestive, and moistening. When taken in excess, it vitiates the blood and creates oedema. When not taken sufficiently, it causes loss of appetite, and vata-predominant illnesses. The characteristic of salt is moistening (vishyandi). It attracts and dissolves in water. As a result of fluid retention, heavy usage causes blood problems and oedema. That is why salt is not permitted in certain disorders.<ref>P. S. Dravyagunasutram. 1st ed. Chaukhamba Sanskrit Sansthan; 1994. p. 55.</ref>

<li style="font-weight:bold">Pungent taste:</li>

<li style="font-weight:bold">Pungent taste:</li>

Pungent tase promotes vata dosha and pitta dosha, while decreasing kapha dosha. It decreases  reproductive components (shukra dhatu), regulates vata, stool, and urine flow, and activates digestive functions. When used excessively, it causes vata dosha and pitta dosha disorders.When not used at all, it causes kaphadosha disorders.<ref>P. S. Dravyagunasutram. 1st ed. Chaukhamba Sanskrit Sansthan; 1994. p. 55.</ref>

Pungent tase promotes [[Vata dosha|vata dosha]] and [[Pitta dosha|pitta dosha]], while decreasing [[Kapha|kapha dosha]]. It decreases  reproductive components ([[Shukra dhatu|shukra dhatu]]), regulates vata, stool, and urine flow, and activates digestive functions. When used excessively, it causes [[Vata dosha|vata dosha]] and [[Pitta dosha|pitta dosha]] disorders. When not used at all, it causes [[Kapha|kapha dosha]] disorders.<ref>P. S. Dravyagunasutram. 1st ed. Chaukhamba Sanskrit Sansthan; 1994. p. 55.</ref>

<li style="font-weight:bold">Bitter taste:</li>

<li style="font-weight:bold">Bitter taste:</li>

Bitter taste is absorbent and cleanses channels while soothing kapha dosha and pitta dosha. When used extensively, vatadosha disorders arise.<ref>P. S. Dravyagunasutram. 1st ed. Chaukhamba Sanskrit Sansthan; 1994. p. 57.</ref>

Bitter taste is absorbent and cleanses channels while soothing [[Kapha|kapha dosha]] and [[Pitta dosha|pitta dosha]]. When used extensively, [[Vata dosha|vata dosha]] disorders arise.<ref>P. S. Dravyagunasutram. 1st ed. Chaukhamba Sanskrit Sansthan; 1994. p. 57.</ref>

<li style="font-weight:bold">Astringent taste:</li>

<li style="font-weight:bold">Astringent taste:</li>

Astringent taste, pacifies kapha dosha and pitta dosha, while increasing vata dosha. It checks and suppresses digestive functions. Excessive usage produces vata prominent illnesses, and non-use causes kapha dosha and pitta dosha predominant ailments, as well as tissue loss.<ref>P. S. Dravyagunasutram. 1st ed. Chaukhamba Sanskrit Sansthan; 1994. p. 57.</ref></ol>

Astringent taste, pacifies [[Kapha|kapha dosha]] and [[Pitta dosha|pitta dosha]], while increasing [[Vata dosha|vata dosha]]. It checks and suppresses digestive functions. Excessive usage produces vata prominent illnesses, and non-use causes [[Kapha|kapha dosha]] and [[Pitta dosha|pitta dosha]] predominant ailments, as well as tissue loss.<ref>P. S. Dravyagunasutram. 1st ed. Chaukhamba Sanskrit Sansthan; 1994. p. 57.</ref></ol>

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| '''Sweet taste'''

| '''Sweet taste'''

| Amongst the six rasas, the madhura rasa, because of its suitability to the body, promotes rasa dhatu, rakta,mamsa, meda dhatu, asthi dhatu, majja dhatu,ojas and shukra. It is also conducive to increasing the lifespan of the person, is pleasing to the six sense organs, promotes strength and lustre, alleviates pitta and vayu, neutralizes poisons, and pacifies thirst and heat. It is beneficial for skin, hair, throat and strength and is nourishing, vitalizing, saturating, bulk-promoting and stabilizing. It promotes healing of wounds of the emaciated. It provides good feeling in nose, mouth, throat, lips and tongue; alleviates fainting, is most liked by the bees and ants, and is unctuous, cold and heavy.

| Amongst the six rasas, the [[Madhura|madhura]] rasa, because of its suitability to the [[Sharira|body]], promotes [[Rasa dhatu|rasa dhatu]], [[Rakta dhatu|rakta]], [[Mamsa dhatu|mamsa]], [[Meda dhatu|meda dhatu]], [[Asthi dhatu|asthi dhatu]], [[Majja dhatu|majja dhatu]], [[Ojas|ojas]] and [[Shukra dhatu|shukra]]. It is also conducive to increasing the lifespan of the person, is pleasing to the six sense organs, promotes strength and lustre, alleviates [[Pitta|pitta]] and [[Vayu mahabhuta|vayu]], neutralizes poisons, and pacifies thirst and heat. It is beneficial for skin, hair, throat and strength and is nourishing, vitalizing, saturating, bulk-promoting and stabilizing. It promotes healing of wounds of the emaciated. It provides good feeling in nose, mouth, throat, lips and tongue; alleviates fainting, is most liked by the bees and ants, and is unctuous, cold and heavy.

'''Madhura rasa atiyoga (Effects of over consumption of sweet taste) [NAMC Code- Q-12.1]'''

'''Madhura rasa atiyoga (Effects of over consumption of sweet taste) [NAMC Code- Q-12.1]'''

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| '''Sour taste'''

| '''Sour taste'''

| Amla rasa makes food relishing, stimulates agni, enhances body bulk and energizes it, awakens the mind, firms the sense organs, increases bala (strength), causes vatanulomana (normal movement of vata), nourishes the heart, increases secretions in the mouth, propels, moistens, and digests food, gives satisfaction, and is light, hot and unctuous.

| [[Amla|Amla]] rasa makes food relishing, stimulates [[Agni|agni]], enhances body bulk and energizes it, awakens the [[Manas|mind]], firms the sense organs, increases [[Bala|bala (strength)]], causes vatanulomana (normal movement of vata), nourishes the heart, increases secretions in the mouth, propels, moistens, and digests food, gives satisfaction, and is light, hot and unctuous.

'''Amla rasa atiyoga (Effects of over consumption of sour taste) [NAMC:Q-12.2]'''

'''Amla rasa atiyoga (Effects of over consumption of sour taste) [NAMC:Q-12.2]'''

This, though endowed with so many qualities, if used singly and excessively, makes teeth sensitive, causes thirst, causes closure of eyes, raises the body hair, liquifies kapha, aggravates pitta, affects blood morbidity, causes inflammation in muscles and laxity in body, produces swelling in wasted, injured, emaciated and debilitated persons, because of its agneya nature causes suppuration in wounds, injuries, bites, burns, fractures, swellings, dislocations, poisoned spots due to urination and contact of insects, compressed, excised, incised, punctured and crushed etc., and causes burning sensation in throat, chest and the cardiac region

This, though endowed with so many qualities, if used singly and excessively, makes teeth sensitive, causes thirst, causes closure of eyes, raises the body hair, liquifies [[Kapha|kapha]], aggravates [[Pitta|pitta]], affects blood morbidity, causes inflammation in muscles and laxity in [[Sharira|body]], produces swelling in wasted, injured, emaciated and debilitated persons, because of its [[Agneya|agneya]] nature causes suppuration in wounds, injuries, bites, burns, fractures, swellings, dislocations, poisoned spots due to urination and contact of insects, compressed, excised, incised, punctured and crushed etc., and causes burning sensation in throat, chest and the cardiac region

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| '''Salt'''

| '''Salt'''

| Lavana rasa is digestive, moistening, appetizing, pouring, expectorant, mass-breaking, irritant, laxative, quickly spreading in body, oozing, space-creating, [[Vata dosha|vata]] alleviating, diminishes stiffness, viscid, diminishes the perception of other tastes if added in excess, increases secretions in mouth, liquefies [[Kapha|kapha]], cleanses channels, softens all the body-parts, gives relish to food, is a supplement of food. It is not very heavy, unctuous and hot.

| [[Lavana|Lavana]] rasa is digestive, moistening, appetizing, pouring, expectorant, mass-breaking, irritant, laxative, quickly spreading in [[Sharira|body]], oozing, space-creating, [[Vata dosha|vata]] alleviating, diminishes stiffness, viscid, diminishes the perception of other tastes if added in excess, increases secretions in mouth, liquefies [[Kapha|kapha]], cleanses channels, softens all the body-parts, gives relish to food, is a supplement of food. It is not very heavy, unctuous and hot.

'''Lavana rasa atiyoga (Effects of over consumption of salty taste) [NAMC:Q-12.3]'''

'''Lavana rasa atiyoga (Effects of over consumption of salty taste) [NAMC:Q-12.3]'''

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|+ style="text-align:left;" | Table depicting the degree of activity of taste on dosha<ref>AyuSoft Team. Rasa-Siddhaanta Tastes: All Useful all Over [Internet]. 2006 [cited 2022 Oct 9]. Available from: https://ayusoft.ayush.gov.in/rasa-siddhaanta-tastes-all-useful-all-over/</ref>

|+ style="text-align:left;" | Table depicting the degree of activity of taste on dosha<ref>AyuSoft Team. Rasa-Siddhaanta Tastes: All Useful all Over [Internet]. 2006 [cited 2022 Oct 9]. Available from: https://ayusoft.ayush.gov.in/rasa-siddhaanta-tastes-all-useful-all-over/</ref>

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| Vata

| [[Vata dosha|Vata]]

| Lavana

| [[Lavana|Lavana]]

| Amla

| [[Amla|Amla]]

| Madhura

| [[Madhura|Madhura]]

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| Pitta

| [[Pitta dosha|Pitta]]

| Tikta

| [[Tikta|Tikta]]

| Madhura

| [[Madhura|Madhura]]

| Kashaya

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| Kapha

| [[Kapha|Kapha]]

| Katu

| [[Katu|Katu]]

| Tikta

| [[Tikta|Tikta]]

| Kashaya

| [[Kashaya|Kashaya]]

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