Agni a Biotransformer

Pooja Halgekar; K N Rajashekhar; Gayathri Holla

doi:10.21760/jaims.9.5.10

Pooja Halgekar Post Graduate Scholar, Department of Kriya Shareera, Alva’s Ayurveda Medical College and Hospital Vidyagiri, Moodbidri, Karnataka, India.
K N Rajashekhar Professor and HOD, Department of Kriya Shareera, Alva’s Ayurveda Medical College and Hospital Vidyagiri, Moodbidri, Karnataka, India.
Gayathri Holla Associate Professor, Department of Kriya Shareera, Alva’s Ayurveda Medical College and Hospital Vidyagiri, Moodbidri, Karnataka, India.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21760/jaims.9.5.10

Keywords: Agni, Jatharagni, Bhutagni, Dhatwagni, Biotransformation, Digestion, Metabolism

Abstract

The concept of Agni is one of the most important contributions of Ayurveda to health care system. In Ayurveda, Agni has a significant role to maintain body homeostasis, body functioning, digestion and metabolism. Countless alterations happen in the body every second in the form of biochemical, biophysical, or other types of biotransformation. The entire spectrum of the body’s metabolic and digestive processes is managed by the Agni. According to function and site of action, Agni is divided into three types i.e. 1 Jatharagni, 5 Bhutagni and 7 Dhatwagni. Jatharagni is chief among all types of Agni’s because functions of Bhutagni and Dhatwagni depend on this. Jatharagni plays a key role in digestion of food-stuffs composed of the five basic elements and transforms it for utilization by the respective tissues. By this article an attempt has been made to describe the concepts of Agni in Ayurveda and its modern interpretations.

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