• SWEET 
• BITTER 
• ASTRINGENT 

• SOUR, 
• SALTY, 
• PUNGENT(HOT) 

SWEET Taste (Helpful)
Gives STRENGTH 
Old-age, obstructions in throat, Lungs problem, Muscle prob. heals wounds,  clear perception of sense organs, life-sustaining, against poison,good for general health, enhances and enriches 7 B.C.ís, checks senile decay, children, depleted energy,  increases body weight,  sustains body, enhances complexion, prolongs life, antidote to Lung and Tipa disorders. 

SWEET Taste (Harmful) 
Obesity, harms dig. heat of body, diabetes, goitre, glandular diseases, formation of Badkhen and fat, decreased digestive heat 
Rice, flour, potatoes, cabbage all have SWEET taste 

BITTER Taste (Helpful) 
Oily nature of body, helps us to carry through plan to fruitition (cafffeine gives 'strength' to carry through)  decreases appetite, good tonic, helps to develop, causes problems when body is in ill-health.  84,;000 various parasites inside and outside body, leprosy, counteracts epidemics, checks vomiting. counteracts Tipa related problems 

BITTER Taste (Harmful)
Wasting of muscle, Thirst (not only drinking thirst), similar characteristics, disturbed ascending Lung and Tipa - HEAT WILL SUBSIDE EARTH AND WATER IN BODY.  Dries up fats, bone marrow, excrements, problems with womens breasts, lose voice, declines colour of B.C.ís, elevates Lung and Badkhen - Water and Air (bitter) corresponds with Lung and Badkhen : light and cold 

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 

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

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. 
 

Blood - Tipa (Heat)   Badkhen - Earth and Water - Cold - Blood moist. 
Fire fanned for ASCENDING LUNG affects cooling quality of Badkhen on blood - thirst we feel is disease. 
Loss of appetite, imbalance of diet and behaviour (nye ga chu pa - (YE GA ACHUS) lethargy, dislike of talking, no determination,  loss of appetite, confusion 
Exacerbates all symptoms of all types. 

• SWEET             - Vitis vinifera Wall.
• BITTER            - Herpetosspermum Pedunculosum (Minor)
• ASTRINGENT - Santalum album Linn.