KAPHAJA VYADHI

Kapha aggravating etiological factors are as follows: sleeping during day time; sitting idle or not doing any physical exercises; lassitude; excess consumption of sweet, sour, salt, cold, unctuous, heavy, shiny food; Abhshyandi [which increase Kledata (moistureness) in Dosha, Dhatu, Mala, and Srotas]; excess intake of Hayanaka, Yavaka, Naishadha, Itkata, Masha, Mahamasha, Godhuma, Tila, Pista Vikriti, Dadhi, Dugdha, Krishara (kind of yavagu), Payasa, Ikshuvikara  

(sugarcane and its products);consumption of marshy and aquatic animals meat; intake of lotus, that is, its fat, stem, and stalk, Kasheruka, Sringhataka; excess consumption of sweet fruits like Tala, Narikela, etc.; consumption of cucurbitaceous fruits like Kusmanda, etc.; intake of mixture of healthy and unhealthy diet; eating during indigestion and other Kapha aggravating factors.; excess intake of cold substances, during winter, especially in Vasanta, first hours of morning, night and just after taking food; sweet, sour, salty taste dominated food accumulates Kapha and Kapha accumulates during Shishira Ritu.

Kaphavaha Sroto Dusti Lakshana (signs and symptoms of vitiated Kaphavaha Srotas)

Soma which is represented by Kapha and gives rise to good or bad effects depending on its normal state and abnormal state namely firmness and laxity, plumpness and emaciation, enthusiasm and laziness, potency and impotency, knowledge and ignorance, understanding and confusion and such other dual functions. Prominence of whiteness, excessive discharge, increased density, pale yellow, unctuousness, slimy, thick, flowing slowly, thick, heaviness, etc., indicates the vitiation of Kaphavaha Srotas.

For example, in case of Kaphaja Udara Roga by observing signs and symptoms, it can be concluded that Kaphavaha Srotas is also involved along with other Srotasas, that is, whiteness of nails, eyes, face, skin, urine, and stool, prominence of white streaks and veins all over the abdomen and abdomen becomes heavy, timid, immobile, and hard.

Another example clearly indicates the involvement of Kaphavaha Srotas in the pathogenesis of disease Kapahaja Visarpa – The part in which disease spreads becomes oedematous, pale-yellow, slightly reddish and unctuous associated with numbness, stiffness, heaviness, and mild pain. Suppuration of the skin eruption is slow, chronic, and they appear in large number; the skin over these pustules gets covered with white or pale yellow colored sticky material. When pustules burst they discharge white, slimy, thread, viscous, knotty, and unctuous materials. Whitishness of nails, eyes, face, skin, urine, and stool was observed in these areas.

Diseases manifest by Kapha Dosha alone are called Kaphaja Nanatmaja Vyadhi. Twenty types of Kaphaja Nanatmaja Vikara’s are described, even though Kaphaja Nanatmaja diseases are said to be innumerable.

TYPES OF KAPHAJA VYADHI :-

1 TRUPTI (Anorexia Nervosa)

2 TANDRA (Drowsiness)

3 NIDRAADHIKYA (Excessive Sleep)

4 STAIMITYA (Timidness)

5 GURU GATRATA (Heaviness of the body)

6 ALASYA (Laziness)

7 MUKHA MAADHURYA (Sweet Taste In Mouth)

8 MUKHA SARAVA (Salivation)

9 SHLESHMODGIRANA (Mucus Expectoration)

10 MALAADHIKYA (Excessive Excretion Of Excreta)

11 BALASAKA (Loss Of Strength)

12 APAKTI (Indigestion)

13 HRUDAYOPALEPA (Feeling as if heart is wrapped up with moisture)

14 KANTOPALEPA (Phlegm Adhered To Throat )

15 DHAMANI PRATICHAYA (Hardening of Vessels)

16 GALAGANDA (Goiter)

17 ATI STHAULYA (Obesity)

18 SHEETAAGNITA (Suppression of Digestion)

19 UDARDA (Urticaria)

20 SHVETAAVABHASATA (Pallor)