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The questionnaire to determine an individual type of the constitution (how to individualize the predominant dosha/doshas)
Instractions: Tick on the affirmation that describe you in the best way

	VATA	PITTA	KAPHA
Hair	brown, dry	fair, red, delicate	dark, thick, wavy
Skin	dry, rough	normal, soft	oily
Colour of skin	dark	pink, rosy, or reddish	pale, chiara, white
Eyes	small, brown	vivaly, green or brown	big, bright, blue
Teeth	irregular	yellowish	white, strong
Mental activity	fast	intense, aggressive	stable, calm
Memory	recent memory good	sharp	slow but prolonged
Dreams	movement, fly, run, climb	fiery, violence, anger	water, clouds, romantic
Climate	aversion to cold	aversion to warm	aversion to umidity
Sleep	interrupted, scanty	profound, middle duration	profound, long duration
Reaction to stress	excites quickly	gets angry easily, irritable	gets angry rarely
Woman's pulse	80-90	70-80	60-70
Man's pulse	70-85	60-70	50-60
Body Frame	thin	moderate	robust
Body Weight	low, puts on weight with difficulty	moderate	abundant, puts on weight easily
Resistence at physical exercise	low	good	excellent
Physical strength	low	good	excellent
Appetite	variable	voracious, good	low but steady
Food and beverage	preferably warm	preferably cold	preferably dry and warm
Activity	fast in activity	medialy fast	slow to start an activity
Relation with money	does not save money, spends it quickly	saves money, but spends a lot	saves money regolarly amass riches
Mood	instabile, changes quickly	changes slowly	stable, does not change
Step	fast, rapid	medium	slow e heavy
Voice	loud tonality, instable	medium, clear	low, deep
Other	loves music and movement	the body covered of moles and freckles	generous, tends to forgive
Other	undecided, often change opinion	white hair and baldness precoce	dull to learn new information

Sum up the total number of the answers in every column.

The column with the higher total indicates your type of the constitution, the predominant dosha. If the higher number of the answers is devided in two column, so there are two principles that in proportionate way predominate in your type of the constitution.
From this questionnaire can obtaine only an indication of your type of the constitution. To get the more precise and complete valutation you have to apply to a doctor that is an expert in Ayurveda.