ஏழு உடல் தாதுக்கள் · Sapta Dhatu← Udal Koyil
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The tissue forming now, and ojasSeven pots, each on its own fire (dhatvagni)Flow: pot to pot, or trough to every potFood enters the hopper, the stomach fire (jatharagni) cooks it into rasa, and each pot's own fire refines part of what it receives into the next tissue. The slider is the day: about five days per tissue in Sushruta's count. Switch to Anatomy to see how the body actually supplies its tissues.
What the tradition says. Ayurveda and Siddha describe digestion as cooking. The stomach fire turns food into rasa; then each tissue's own fire refines part of what it receives into the next: rasa → rakta → mamsa → meda → asthi → majja → shukra, in series. Ojas is the essence of all seven, carried as strength, immunity and glow. Sushruta counts roughly five days per tissue, about a month in all. This is the tradition's model, shown as the tradition draws it.

Tradition: Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana 14; Charaka Samhita; Siddha names of the seven udal thathukkal. Anatomy: standard physiology; fat-cell turnover from Spalding et al., Nature 2008. Rates are approximate.