(constitutional type) (Horrigan 81). Everything in Ayurvedic medicine is based on an understanding of these individual prakritis which means that a dozen different people with the same disease will be treated in a dozen different ways in Ayurvedic medicine, and this is what attracts many people to the practice: that it is completely individualized. People are treated as individuals, whereas in Western medicine they are often treated more as a ôdiseaseö entity, where everyone with the same disease gets the same treatment.
The vata energy is made of air and space, and governs the processes of circulation, breathing, and the beating of the heart (ôAyurvedaö 2001; Lad 64). The vata body type person tends to be thin, with prominent features, joints and veins. They have cool, dry skin, and are moody, enthusiastic, imaginative, and impulsive. The vata type is good at initiating things, but poor at finishing them. They eat and sleep erratically, and are prone to anxiety, insomnia, constipation, and in female
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