Changes

But it's not as simple as that. The amount of each ''dosha'' in your body depends on daily and seasonal cycles. Let's take a look at the seasonal one as an example. The Indian climate has not four, but six seasons. Winter is cold and damp, and people tend to be listless and sluggish, so their organisms develop an excess of ''kapha'', which is eviedent by the buildup of thick phlegm. Cold winds blow at the same time, which makes the air filled with bitterness. When the spring comes, the air becomes astringnet, while the phlegm melts down and spreads throughout your body, causing an the aggravation of ''kapha''. Aggravation of any ''dosha'' is dangerous, so it needs to be mitigated with an appropriate diet to stem the onset of disease. In the summertime it's dry and windy, everything tastes sharper than usually and your body begins to accumulate ''vata''. Then comes the rainy season, which brings strong monsoon winds, heavy rains, slightly lower temperatures and a sour taste permeating the air. In these circumstances, ''vata'' has absolutely no idea what's going on and gets aggravated. What's more, ''pitta'' begins to build up. Autumn, which is dry, warm and salty, pacifies ''vata'', but aggravates ''pitta''. It's only in the sweet ealry winter that ''pitta'' becomes pacified, but this is also when ''kapha'' is slowly starting to accumulated. And so on and so forth.