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apacyamAnaM shuktatvaM yAtyannaM viSharUpatAm [14] ||44||

Excessive starvation, indulging in food intake although there is indigestion, overeating, irregular habit of eating, eating unwholesome food, indulging in food which is heavy to digest or having excessive nutritional value, food which is having cold qualities or eating chilled or frozen items, food which is dry in nature or food which brings about emaciation, contaminated food, perversion of procedures like ~~vāman~~, ~~virechan~~ and sneha, emaciation of body due to disease, sudden migration to unsuitable place and of time and of season, suppression of natural urges are causes for vitiation of agni. Thus, vitiated agni is unable to digest even the light food. (42-43)

Excessive starvation, indulging in food intake although there is indigestion, overeating, irregular habit of eating, eating unwholesome food, indulging in food which is heavy to digest or having excessive nutritional value, food which is having cold qualities or eating chilled or frozen items, food which is dry in nature or food which brings about emaciation, contaminated food, perversion of procedures like ''vamana, virechana'' and ''sneha'', emaciation of body due to disease, sudden migration to unsuitable place and of time and of season, suppression of natural urges are causes for vitiation of ''agni''. Thus, vitiated ''agni'' is unable to digest even the light food. [42-43]

This vitiated digestive agent forms an intermediate substance called ama, which turns sour (shukta) during fermentation and finaly turns in poisonous substance (amavisha) (44).

This vitiated digestive agent forms an intermediate substance called ''ama'', which turns sour (''shukta'') during fermentation and finaly turns in poisonous substance (''amavisha'') [44]

==== Signs and symptoms of ajirna(indigestion) ====

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 apacyamAnaM shuktatvaM yAtyannaM viSharUpatAm [14] ||44||
-Excessive starvation, indulging in food intake although there is indigestion, overeating, irregular habit of eating, eating unwholesome food, indulging in food which is heavy to digest or having excessive nutritional value, food which is having cold qualities or eating chilled or frozen items, food which is dry in nature or food which brings about emaciation, contaminated food, perversion of procedures like vāman, virechan and sneha, emaciation of body due to disease, sudden migration to unsuitable place and of time and of season, suppression of  natural urges are causes for vitiation of agni. Thus, vitiated agni is unable to digest even the light food. (42-43)
+Excessive starvation, indulging in food intake although there is indigestion, overeating, irregular habit of eating, eating unwholesome food, indulging in food which is heavy to digest or having excessive nutritional value, food which is having cold qualities or eating chilled or frozen items, food which is dry in nature or food which brings about emaciation, contaminated food, perversion of procedures like ''vamana, virechana'' and ''sneha'', emaciation of body due to disease, sudden migration to unsuitable place and of time and of season, suppression of  natural urges are causes for vitiation of ''agni''. Thus, vitiated ''agni'' is unable to digest even the light food. [42-43]
-This vitiated digestive agent forms an intermediate substance called ama, which turns sour (shukta) during fermentation and finaly turns in poisonous substance (amavisha) (44).
+This vitiated digestive agent forms an intermediate substance called ''ama'', which turns sour (''shukta'') during fermentation and finaly turns in poisonous substance (''amavisha'') [44]
 ==== Signs and symptoms of ajirna(indigestion) ====