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Active Imbalance

Vikriti: Restoring Your Disturbed Harmony

While Prakriti is your healthy inborn baseline, Vikriti is your current state of imbalance caused by chronic stress, erratic diet, emotional strain, or seasonal shifts.

Your Baseline Nature

Prakriti (Who You Naturally Are)

Your innate constitution formed at conception. Like your eye color or bone length, it remains constant throughout life and represents your state of effortless equilibrium.

Goal: To understand and honor it
Your Current Condition

Vikriti (Where You Are Out of Balance)

The active deviation from your baseline. For example, a naturally calm Kapha person can develop a severe Vata Vikriti (anxiety and insomnia) after months of stressful travel and skipped meals.

Goal: To pacify and clear it completely
Signs of Active Imbalance

Recognizing Which Dosha is Aggravated

Healing begins by identifying which specific Dosha has accumulated and overflowed its normal seat in the body.

Excess Movement & Dryness

Vata Aggravation

Caused by late nights, skipping meals, cold dry weather, and prolonged anxiety.

Insomnia Constipation Joint Cracking Restless Mind Dry Flaky Skin
Excess Heat & Acidity

Pitta Aggravation

Caused by spicy fried foods, alcohol, overwork, excessive sunlight, and unresolved anger.

Acid Reflux Skin Rashes Irritability Heartburn Migraines
Excess Heaviness & Sluggishness

Kapha Aggravation

Caused by daytime sleep, overeating sweets and dairy, lack of movement, and cold damp environments.

Chronic Sluggishness Sinus Congestion Weight Gain Fluid Retention Brain Fog
"Rogas tu dosha-vaishamyam dosha-samyam arogata |"
— Ashtanga Hridaya, Sutrasthana 1.20
"Disease is nothing other than the disturbance (Vaishamya) of the Doshas. Good health is simply their natural balance (Samya)."
Return Home to Balance

Clear Your Active Vikriti at AyurMana Hospital

When imbalances settle deep into bodily tissues, home remedies alone cannot dislodge them. At AyurMana in Kerala, our doctors use Panchakarma purification to extract accumulated Vikriti and restore your natural vitality.

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