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<li>'''Habitat(desha):''' Vata usually gets vitiated in the person of arid area(jangaladesha).</li>
<li>'''Habitat(desha):''' Vata usually gets vitiated in the person of arid area(jangaladesha).</li>
<li>'''Age (vaya):''' In old age, vata is in excess as compared to other dosha.</li></ul>
<li>'''Age (vaya):''' In old age, vata is in excess as compared to other dosha.</li></ul>
<div>[[File:Vata factors.jpg|center|frame|Figure 04: Natural factors responsible for vatavriddhi.]]</div>
'''Artificial factors:'''
Apart from natural factors, there are certain factorsthat causevitiation of dosha and disease. These factors are easily avoidable and used in clinical practice through the concept of samanyavisheshasiddhanta. These factors are as follows: [Su.Sa. Sutra Sthana21/19]<ref name="multiple3" /> [A.Hr. NidanaSthana1/14-15]<ref name="multiple4" />
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<li>'''Diet(dravya) and particular properties of diet:''' Ayurveda defined three tastes (rasa) that can lead to vitiation of vatadosha. These three rasa are bitter(tikta), pungent(katu) and astringent(kashaya).These three rasa, when taken in excess, cause vata vitiation(prakopa).</li>
<li>'''Lifestyle or activities:''' Suppression of natural urges(vegavidharana), night awakening(ratrijagrana), loud speech(ucchabhashana), overworking or excessive shodhana(kriya atiyoga), overthinking(chinta), excessive exercise(vyayama), excessive sexual indulgence(atimaithuna), excessive studies(atiadhyanana), swimming(plavana), and lifting of weight(bharaharana) etc.</li>
== Clinical aspects ==
'''Preventive aspect:''' Person having prakriti vatadosha as body constitution should avoid diet and lifestyle which vitiates vata dosha.To prevent the vata dominant diseases, diet and lifestyle opposite to attributes of vata are advised.[A.Hr. ShariraSthana3/85-89]<ref name="multiple4" />
'''Stages of dosha:''' Dosha continues to exist in three states: hypofunction (kshaya), hyperfunction (vriddhi), and normal physiological state (sama). [Cha.Sa. Sutra Sthana17/110]Increase and reduction in dosha functioning (karma), respectively, can be used to understand dosha increase and decline in the body.Dosha, when increased, produce their respective features in excess; when decreased, cut off their functions and when in normal state, they perform their normal functions.