Lavaṇa rasa — salty

Softening / fluid-balance teaching proxy

Lavaṇa, the salty taste, is placed near a kidney and lower-abdominal proxy to evoke fluid and softening language used in teaching summaries. The locus is a target-organ projection of a taste property, not an anatomical salt reservoir or a clinical kidney assessment.

Madhura rasa — sweetAmla rasa — sourLavaṇa rasa — saltyLavaṇa rasa — saltyKaṭu rasa — pungentTikta rasa — bitterKaṣāya rasa — astringent

Point 3 of 6 in Ṣaḍ Rasa — Six Tastes

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No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Caraka Saṃhitā (primary_canonical)

Sūtrasthāna 26–27 classifies lavaṇa and describes its qualities and effects on the doṣas and tissues; no renal coordinate is given.

Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdayam (primary_canonical)

Sūtrasthāna 10 describes lavaṇa's qualities and actions; the lower-abdominal kidney-side proxy is an editorial visual convention.

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