• SOUR
• SALTY
• ASTRINGENT/PUNGENT 

• SWEET
• HEAVY
• COOL 
• OILY

SPECIFIC FUNCTION OF TASTES:
 

SALTY Taste (Helpful)
Gives body firmness, muscle formation, moves blockages from channels, cramps - fomentation - dig, heat, appetite 
good for strength and vitality, obstruction of faeces - CONSTIPATION, obstruction of channels, applied heat on body, indigestion, strong pain in stomach 

SALTY Taste (Harmful) 
Weakness of body, hair falls out on head, grows in other parts, turning hair white, wrinkles on body/face, old age, excess energy (not always excess salty) 
deteriorates B.C.ís, aggravates dermatitis, leprosy, body fluids , losing strength, thirst, leprosy, skin diseases, blood and tipa, high blood pressure 

SOUR Taste (Helpful) 
Gaining body heat and appetite, good digestion, satisfied feeling,  counteracts Badkhen, digesting food - further helps metabolism of 7 B.C.ís  COOLING if applied externally, obstruction of lungs, rectum, CIRCULATION  strengthened,  evacuating waste from body, opens channels 

SOUR Taste (Harmful)
Harms by creating Tipa disorders, dizziness,blurring of vision, giddiness, headache - swelling in body, burning sensation of skin, skin diseases, pimples, thirst, infectious diseases,  dual or all 3 humours, dermatology, body fluids, acne and pimples connected with Tipa and blood 
Orange, mango, chang, dried cheese, curd 

ASTRINGENT Taste (Helpful) 
dries up fat, blood, tipa, gangrenes, excess portion of blood and tipa, gives cool effect, enhancing complexion, good looks of person 

ASTRINGENT Taste (Harmful)
Excess: too much mucus, excess of waste products, saliva, flatulence, cardiovascular, depletion of B.C.ís, blockage of channels and orifices 

SWEET Taste (Helpful)
Gives STRENGTH 
molasses (Heavy) brown crystal sugar - 
Old-age, obstructions in throat, Lungs problem, Muscle problems, heals wounds, good for complexion, clear perception of sense organs, life-sustaining, against poison. Good for general health, enhances and enriches 7 .B.C.'s, checks senile decay, good for children, depleted eneergy, throat/lungs problem,, increases body weight, heals wounds, sustains body, enhances complexion, improves sense organs, perception, prolongs life, anitdoe to Lung and Tipa problems. 

SWEET:  (Harmful)
Formation of Badkhen and fat, decreased digestive heat, obesity - harms digestive heat of body, diabetes, goitre, glandular diseases (Badkhen disorders)
Person who has more Badkhen nature consumes Sweet taste (like Lung oily?) 
Rice, flour, potatoes, cabbage, RAW VEGETABLES -  all have SWEET taste - 
Baby - Badkhen 
Raw vegetables are SWEET - bad for Badkhen 

HOT (Helpful)
Throat-related problems, tongue, leprosy, intense body heat, heat of  digestion, burning fats, expelling waste by  downward-voiding fire 

HOT (Harmful)
Dries up regenerating elements, falling unconscious, back pain (lower region) TASTE CONTAINED IN MEDICINE HAS GREATER POTENCY THAN IN FOOD.  People who are habituated to take an excess from childhood will have less effect, be less affected. 
 
 

BADKHEN:  counteracted by  MEDICINAL TASTES which are: 

• PUNGENT       -  Piper Nigrum Linn
• SOUR                -  Punics granatum Linn.
• ASTRINGENT - Terminalia Belleri