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Principleसिद्धांत

Vipaka (post-digestive effect)

विपाक

Extracted from the text1 reference

Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.

Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
विपाकपाक
Hindi
विपाकपचने के बाद का प्रभाव
English
Vipakavipakapost-digestive effect
Romanized
vipaka

What the text says

Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.

Classification1

  • Among the views of one-sided theorists that the text calls faulty is the statement that the vipaka of a substance is of three kinds: sweet, sour and pungent.

    Appendix: Hitahita · p. 609Sanskrit verseTraditional description

Where else is this mentioned?

Named 13 times on 10 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.

Questions and answers

Why does the author say the medicines in the text are not complete?

Substances and their tastes, potencies, post-digestive effects and specific actions are countless and cannot all be told in a short treatise.

Detailed answer and sources
What does the hitahita chapter, quoting Sushruta, say about substance, taste, potency and vipaka?

There is no vipaka without potency, no potency without taste and no taste without substance; substance is the most important, because taste, potency and vipaka depend on it, and the eight qualities called potency rest in substance, not in the tastes.

Detailed answer and sources

All references

Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.

Quick facts

Content type
Principle
Categories
Vipaka
Source pages with records
1
Pages naming it
10
Extraction tasks
T29
Record id
concept_vipaka