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Vata
The first dosha is known as vata. Vata represents the element of air combined with the element of space. As in nature, the characteristics of vata include movement, lightness, and dryness. This dosha controls the biological movement in our body, such as our breathing, our heartbeat, the movement of food through our body, the movement that leads to excretion. Vata also controls certain functions in the mind and central nervous system that relate to movement and direction. Vata animates us and initiates the important processes that keep the body alive.
Pitta
The second dosha is pitta, which represents the element of fire combined with a minimum of the element of water. Pitta, representing transformation, is behind the creation of bodily tissue, and controls digestive fires that transform food so that it can be absorbed into the body. Pitta converts the water and air that enters the body. It controls all secretions, including enzymes and hormones, the body's energy, and the body's temperature. In nature, pitta is associated with the properties of the sun and fireheat and penetration. Pitta also manifests the characteristic of Agni and enlightenment. Pitta helps us to absorb knowledge and understand it.
Kapha
The third dosha is kapha and represents a combination of the element of water and the element of earth. In nature, this dosha is equated with the moon and water, and shares the characteristics of liquidity, heaviness or density, quiescence, and coldness. Kapha represents preservation. It maintains the body's strength, lubricates the body's joints and tissues, and provides

 
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