Madhura rasa — sweet

Nourishing / kapha-associated teaching proxy

Madhura, the sweet taste, is placed over an upper-abdominal digestive proxy to represent nourishment and the Kapha-associated teaching emphasis. The point maps a taste property of substances to a target-organ region, not to a literal sweet-receptor anatomy or a fixed spleen location.

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

Point 1 of 6 in Ṣaḍ Rasa — Six Tastes

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Caraka Saṃhitā (primary_canonical)

Sūtrasthāna 26–27 classifies madhura among the six rasas and discusses its qualities and tissue-nourishing effects; no organ coordinate is prescribed.

Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdayam (primary_canonical)

Sūtrasthāna 10 describes madhura's qualities and doṣic action; the upper-abdomen point is an editorial target-organ proxy.

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