Dryness
One of the twenty Ayurvedic attributes; the dry quality creates dehydration, hard dry stools, constipation, and stimulates fire; in excess causes constriction, spasm, and pain.
Rūksha (Dry): Effects on Body and Doshas
The dry quality increases Vata and decreases Pitta and Kapha. It creates dehydration and makes the stool hard and dry, causing constipation. Rūksha stimulates fire, because fire is dry. This quality causes choking, constriction, spasm, and pain.
Dry weather causes aggravation of Vata under the skin, causing the skin to become dry, rough, and cracked. Fear, nervousness, and loneliness are dry. Rūksha creates isolation, separation, and rejection. When a person is lonely, the dry quality is aggravated.
Source: Textbook of Ayurveda: Fundamental Principles, Chapter Two: Universal Attributes and Doshic Theory
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