Also Called as Kapha Kaarak.
Effects:
Benefits of Kapha-kaarak (Pitta-naashak) or Praan mudra:
- Popularly known as Praan mudra, this mudra increases the Kapha humor but decreases the Pitta humor within the body.
Method:
- This mudra is formed by joining together the tips of the thumb, the ring finger and the little Finger.
Effects:
- This mudra brings about an increase of Kappa humor within the body.
- Kapha humor is associated with vitality, strength and immunity.
- Practice of Praan mudra increases these qualities
- It also reduces Pitta humor, which is associated with bodily heat and metabolism. Thus, this mudra is excellent for people who have an excess of Pitta or a deficiency of kapha in their bodies.
- On the other hand, people with a kapha-excess or Pitta-deficiency should perform this mudra in moderation, if at all.
Benefits of Kapha-kaarak (Pitta-naashak) or Praan mudra:
- Chronic fatigue, general debility, low endurance
- Impaired immunity (tendency to contract infectious diseases)
- Mental tension, anger, irritability, jealousness, pride, impatience, chronic sense of time-urgency
- Intolerance of heat, stress and noise; ailments which get worse in summer
- Hyperthyroidism (weight-loss despite having good appetite)
- Forgetfulness
- High blood pressure, athero-sclerosis (hardening and narrowing of arteries)
- Burning in the mouth, throat, stomach; apthous ulcers, acidity, ulcerative colitis
- Disorders caused by a deficiency of earth and water elements within the body [see Prithvi-vardhak and Jal- vardhak (varun) mudras.
- Inflammatory disorders (diseases ending with 'itis')
- Sleeplessness; light/disturbed sleep.
- People who are overweight or who have a pronounced kappa constitution should perform this mudra in moderation, if at all.
