The core vocabulary AyurPal uses across every entry — the doshas, the six tastes, the qualities, tissues and channels. Short plain-language notes here; fuller, fully-sourced explanations are being authored.
The three functional principles. Vata governs movement, Pitta transformation, Kapha structure. Health is their balance for your nature.
The six tastes. Each is said to have specific effects on the doshas and is used to guide diet and formulation.
The qualities (e.g. heavy/light, hot/cold, oily/dry) by which substances and states are described and balanced.
The potency of a substance — broadly heating (ushna) or cooling (shita).
The post-digestive effect — the taste-effect a substance leaves after digestion.
The seven bodily tissues, from plasma to reproductive tissue, nourished in sequence.
The channels through which substances and processes move in the body.
States of agni (digestive fire) — its strength shapes digestion and the formation of ama.
Ama is the classical idea of undigested residue; these are its described states.