6 Rasas (Tastes):

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6 Rasas (Tastes):
  1. sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, astringent
  2. determined by the predominance of two elements (sweet = water and earth, e.g.)
  3. the gustatory response to physical and chemical properties rasa is known by its contact with the oral cavity (mouth and tongue, etc)
  4. manifest and subtle (anurasa, uparasa)
  5. karya dravya (effects)
    1. produces direct / immediate action -- quick and short acting
    2. implies a feeling response – affects emotions, etc.
    3. affects the mucus and synovial membranes, and skin (via the nerves) -- affects rasa dhatu
    4. weakest of categories of action
    5. used locally in the therapeutic measures of snehana, svedana, nasya, basti, etc.
    6. acts on accumulation (sancaya) stage of samprapti
  1. while taste is subjective experience there are numerous interfering considerations:3
    1. different plants are used under one name
    2. different parts of the plant are used
    3. different place and season of collection and storage
    4. plant as green versus ripe
    5. taste as an inference by observed actions in the body
  2. as a category of drug action there is much correspondence with modern notion of ionization

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