CORRELATION BETWEEN ABO BLOOD GROUPS AND TRIDOSHAS (AYURVEDIC BIOLOGICAL CONSTITUENTS)
1 Assistant Professor of Physiology, DY Patil Medical College, Pimpri, Pune-18.
2 Professor of Physiology, DY Patil Medical College, Pimpri, Pune-18.
Corresponding Author:Dr. Mrs. Purandare V R
Ayurveda considers Vata, Pitta and Kapha or Tridoshas (Ayurvedic biological constituents) as main determinants of human constitution. In this study 800 healthy individuals from the age group of 18 to 25 years were screened for their Tridoshas (Ayurvedic biological constituents) and the correlation between Tridoshas and blood groups (A B O system) was studied. We tried to find out whether there is any correlation between predominant Dosha (Ayurvedic biological constituent) and blood groups. After finding out the Tridosha Prakriti (Ayurvedic constitution), it was found that out of 800 subjects, only 447 were having predominance of a single Dosha (Ayurvedic biological constituent).The reason for this was that the remaining 353 persons were having almost similar percentage of either two or all the three Doshas. That means they were having either Dwandwaja Prakriti (combination of two Doshas) or Tridoshatmaka Prakriti (combination of three Doshas). After correlating predominant doshas with A,B,O blood groups, significant correlation was found. Kapha (Ayurvedic biological constituent) was found to be correlated with blood group A, Pitta (Ayurvedic biological constituent) was correlated with blood group B and Vata (Ayurvedic biological constituent) was correlated with blood group O.
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How to Cite
R, D. M. P. V. & B*, D. M. P. N. (2013). CORRELATION BETWEEN ABO BLOOD GROUPS AND TRIDOSHAS (AYURVEDIC BIOLOGICAL CONSTITUENTS). International Journal of Ayurvedic and Herbal Medicine, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.47191/ijahm/v3i1.04
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