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Gurvadi Guna
Based on the qualities of the five senses’ perceptive
functions, Ayurveda has brought out a system of classification.
You can identify the properties and nature of a thing or a
substance with the help of Gurvadi Guna, a collection of ten
braces of opposite attributes. Every attribute has a specific
or particular action corresponded to it. There are twenty
Gurvadi gunas, and they are:
- Laghutva or lightness
- Shitatva or coldness
- Ushnatva or hotness
- Snigdha or soothing
- Ruksha or dryness
- Mandatva or dullness
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- Tikshnatva or sharpness
- Sthiratva or immobility
- Saratva or mobility
- Mrudutva or softness
- Kathinatva or hardness
- Vishadatva or clearness
- Pichhitatva or sliminess
- Shlakshanatva or smoothness
- Kharatva or roughness
- Sukshmatva or minuteness
- Shortva or bulkiness
- Sandratva or solidity
- Dravatva or fluidity
The details and descriptions of gurvadi gunas are given below:
- Guna means property or quality. To make things lighter, the
elements like fire, space, and air are responsible. The property
that makes it possible is called light. To suppress the kapha
dosha, and aggravate the vata dosha, this guna would be appropriate.
This guna purifies the channels and aggravates the agni or appetiser.
To develop joy and vogor in our body, this guna is needed.
- To decrease the warmth and increase the coldness, this guna
is necessary. Water element, madhur rasa or sweetness, tikta rasa
or bitterness, and kashaya rasa are responsible for this guna.
The syncope, thirst or Trishna, and Daaha or burning sensation
can be cured by this guna. The main function is to increase the
immunity and strength.
- Opposite of shitaguna, agni or fire element, lavan rasa or salt
taste, and Katu rasa (chilly taste) take the responsibility of
this guna. Apart from curing syncope, thirst, and burning sensation,
it can be used for sweating and metabolizing rasa, raktha and
datu.
- Known as love, it is responsible for clinging, and the main
guna of water. It also develops smoothness and softness. You can
find this in sweet, sour and salt rasas. Its main function is
developing strength, softening, strengthening, and suppresses
the vata dosha in the body.
- To generate dryness, roughness and hardness in the body and
to absorb this guna is needed. It increases vata dosha and decreases
kapha dosha, and is found in earth and air elements, and in pungent
smell, bitter taste and alum taste.
- Responsible for developing dullness, retardation, weak action,
and so on due to excess of water element. It increases kapha dosha
and decreases pitta dosha.
- It increases sharpness, proper functioning like burn, digest,
secrete, and scrape. It is responsible for increasing pitta dosha
and decreasing the kapha dosha. Its main element is fire.
- It is found in sweet taste and earth element. Responsible for
stability, hold and obstruction are few important functions.
- Responsible for fastness and increase the vata dosha. Air and
fire elements, sour taste, salt taste, and pungent smell are rich
in this guna. Breaking the bond and excretion are main functions
of this guna. For evacuation therapy, this guna is the best.
- To make the body soft and smooth. This guna aggravates kapha
dosha, prevents burning, suppurating, and for laxing the body.
The qualities and attributes are present for all the truths present in the nature.
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