It is essential that we understand the digestive fire or ‘Agni’ in Ayurveda. After the doshas, you’ll hear Agni referred to most often in the Ayurvedic Texts.
Many ayurvedic doctors say that the treatment of diseases of the body is in fact the treatment of Agni. This Agni is responsible for transforming food into substrates/ metabolites that can be used by the body to balance and nourish the tissue systems.
Even if we have arranged for all kinds of suitable foods in the right combination, our body cannot utilize them without the help of Agni –The Digestive Fire.
In the body, the Agni or fire is manifested as Pitta Dosha, but still contains aspects of each element. The Pitta Dosha is predominantly Fire & Water. The qualities of Pitta as sharp, and light are due to the fire element. Lightness is also contributed by the space element. Air gives the property of mobility and lightness. The properties of mild unctuousness, the capacity to spread evenly, and the fluid state are due to the water element. The earth element gives a peculiar odor to Pitta, the representative of Agni in the body.
Knowing that Agni in the body contains the five elements becomes more relevant when we talk about the
Four States of Agni:
So we can see that in All these Stages of Agni, there is an effect on the gastrointestinal tract due to the derangement of one or more of the elements in the Digestive fire – the Agni.
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