tikta_avastha_paka
Tikta Avastha Paka (Bitter stage).
Food enters the ileum. The Air element continues to create peristaltic movement along with samana vayu, and there is rapid absorption. Stomach and intestines become light, which can create a sense of hunger. However, it is not good to eat now. This stage cools the body and calms pitta symptoms. Bitter taste is yielded into rasa dhatu.
Vaidya Vasant Lad, Textbook of Ayurveda Volume 1, 2001: p. 261
tikta avastha paka - The bitter stage of digestion, which takes place in the ileum, (the last and longest portion of the small intestine colon) during the fifth hour or so after eating.
Vaidya Vasant Lad, Textbook of Ayurveda Volume 1, 2001: p. 312
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