Ayurveda: Determining your dosha

Ayurveda Doctors uses combination of methods for determining doshas

By now you are probably curious to know what Dosha type in your constitution. Ayurvedic practitioners uses many methods for analyzing your dosha type during Ayurveda treatment. After successful analysis Ayurvedic medicine will be prescribed for Ayurvedic way of healing. Ayurveda doctors uses combination of methods, Which includes following three basic types methods:

In the next few articles we will discuss more in depth description of each of the doshas, starting with the physical characteristics and then examining mental tendencies. As you read these, you will probably find that you relate to one dosha more than the others. However, it is quite possible that aspect of two doshas will ring true to you; this is, in fact, fairly common. If you find yourself relating to two, you will likely notice that one of them is a bit stronger than other. In rare instance, a person will have equal proportion of all three doshas. What this means, in effect, is that your constitution could be described by one of ten possibilities. They are:

Vata                                                  Pitta                                       Kapha 

Vata-Pitta                                        Pitta-Vata                             Kapha-Vata

Vata-Kapha                                     Pitta-Kapha                          Kapha-Pitta

Vata-Pitta-Kapha 

In a Vata-Pitta combination, Vata is a bit more dominant than Pitta, while in Pitta-Vata combination, Pitta is stronger than Vata and so on. Also, to complicate things still further, some times people have physical characteristic of one dosha, while their mental trendies comes from another dosha. The Vata-Pitta-Kapha  combination is very unusual and is said to be the best, most innately balanced type.