The three Doshas are like intelligent managers.

They not only coordinate every physical process in the body but also regulate mental and emotional states. Most functions arise from their interplay.

In the nervous system, for example:

• Vata governs movement — of thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, and perceptions.

• Pitta appears in the gray matter through certain neurotransmitters, responsible for knowledge, comprehension, understanding, and compassion. It transforms sensations into emotions and insights.

• Kapha provides structure through the gray matter and surrounds the brain with a subtle layer of white matter, where every sensory impression is recorded. Vata carries the impressions, Kapha provides the medium, and Pitta is the ink that imprints the experience.

Without this cooperation, there would be no human life.

Ayurveda is therefore a functional health system. The Doshas are the intelligent forces that connect the five states of matter and make them work together. In their natural state they create equilibrium — homeostasis. When symptoms or disease appear, it means that something in this network of relationships has gone out of balance. This is a different perspective from Western medicine, which primarily views the body through form, structure, and organs.