Principle of Digestion, Metabolism and Bioenergetics in Ayurveda
Journal Title: JOURNAL OF ADVANCED RESEARCH IN AYURVEDA, YOGA, UNANI, SIDHHA & HOMEOPATHY - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Energy transformation is matter of essentiality to sustain life on earth. Photochemical energy stored in chlorophyll of plant food and biochemical energy stored in animal food undergoes digestion and metabolism to yield energy currency in the form of ATP in the living body. ‘Tridosha Theory’ implies physiological interplay of mutually reciprocal mechanisms, viz., vata, pitta and kapha, to maintain homeostasis at cell, tissue, body and system level of the human body. According to Ayurveda, pitta is a factor which is responsible for digestion, metabolism, heat production and thus channelizing the flow of energy within the living body and between living system and its environment. This paper is an effort to comprehend physiological function of pitta in the living human body in an integrated manner to find out how digestion and metabolism, production and channelization of energy is performed according to two different schools of thought, viz., Ayurveda and Biomedicine.
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Deepti Singh
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