Role of Bhutagni in Digestion

Abstract

Ayurveda has described an important factor of digestion and metabolism in our body as Agni. Ingested food is to digested, absorbed and assimilated which is unavoidable for the maintenance of life and is performed by Agni in Ayurveda. According to the functions and sites of action Agni has been divided in to 13 types – 1 Jatharagni, 5 Bhutagni, 7 Dhatvagni, Almost processs of digestion and metabolism of food are depend upon jatharagni and bhutagni . Jatharagni gives stimulation to bhutagni because consumed food is panchbhautika, it has to be undergo transformation by the respective panchbhutagni then only it become easy to digestion and tissue metabolism by dhatvagni,