Agni Assessment
Assess your digestive fire — Sama, Vishama, Tikshna, or Manda
A short questionnaire about appetite, digestion rhythm, and metabolic feel day to day. Sign in to take it; results help frame educational diet and routine guidance on ayuveda.ai.
Understanding Agni
Adults interested in Ayurvedic digestive patterns — appetite timing, post-meal comfort, and how “fire” feels — whether or not they already know their Dosha type.
What Agni is
Agni is the digestive and transformative fire of Ayurveda — how food, experience, and even emotions are “cooked” into usable nourishment. When Agni is steady, appetite, energy, and clarity often feel more reliable.
What it means in Ayurveda
Classical texts describe four main Agni presentations: balanced (Sama), irregular (Vishama), sharp (Tikshna), and slow (Manda). Each suggests different educational lifestyle and meal-timing emphases — timing, portion size, spice, and rest after eating.
How ayuveda.ai uses it
Your Agni profile informs educational meal and routine framing in chat and related tools. It also pairs with Ama (residue) and Vikriti (current imbalance) so guidance is not only “eat for your type” but also “digest as you are now.”
Model / tradition: Classical Agni (digestive fire) assessment for educational digital use. Four Agni types — Sama, Vishama, Tikshna, Manda — framed as learning profiles, not lab tests or clinical diagnoses.
Four Agni types
These educational profiles describe how digestion may feel. Most people recognise themselves in one primary pattern, sometimes with seasonal shifts.
Sama Agni
Balanced fire
“Steady appetite, comfortable digestion”
- Hunger arrives at regular meal times
- Meals digest without heaviness or burning
- Energy feels stable between meals
- Elimination is generally comfortable and regular
Vishama Agni
Irregular fire
“Variable appetite and timing”
- Hunger that comes and goes unpredictably
- Gas, bloating, or irregular elimination
- Sensitivity to routine disruption or travel
- Digestion that depends heavily on stress and sleep
Tikshna Agni
Sharp fire
“Intense hunger and heat”
- Strong, urgent hunger if meals are delayed
- Tendency toward acidity or heat sensations
- Quick digestion that can tip into irritability
- Preference for cooling or moderating habits when intense
Manda Agni
Slow fire
“Sluggish digestion and heaviness”
- Low or delayed hunger signals
- Heaviness or sleepiness after meals
- Slow sense of “processing” richer foods
- Benefits from lighter meals and gentle stimulation
Agni vs Ama
Agni describes the strength and rhythm of digestion. Ama describes sticky residue that can form when food or experience is incompletely transformed. Strong, steady Agni tends to leave less Ama; weak or irregular Agni makes Ama more likely. Assessing both clarifies whether to focus on kindling digestion, clearing heaviness — or both.
Explore Ama AssessmentDigestive fire
Agni
How well and how regularly appetite, cooking of food, and metabolic feel operate day to day.
Residue load
Ama
Heaviness, coating, sluggishness, and “undigested” patterns that may accumulate when transformation is incomplete.
How it works
Sign in, reflect on typical digestion (not one unusual meal), then apply educational guidance to routine.
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Sign in and open Agni
The assessment lives in your dashboard so results stay private and linked to your profile.
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Answer 10 digestion questions
Cover appetite timing, comfort after eating, hunger urgency, and how stress or travel affects digestion.
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See your Agni profile
Review an educational type orientation with lifestyle framing. Seasonal shifts are normal; treat the result as a working map.
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Connect Ama and constitution
If heaviness is high, consider Ama next. Prakriti and Vikriti add constitutional and present-state context for chat.
How to answer well
Think about your usual pattern over recent weeks — not a single feast or a day of illness.
- Answer for how digestion usually feels, averaging across a typical week.
- If travel or stress only occasionally disrupts you, note the common baseline more than rare exceptions.
- Distinguish hunger (wanting food) from cravings or boredom eating when questions allow.
- Take it when you are not acutely unwell; fever or gastroenteritis will skew answers.
What you get
- Educational Agni type orientation (Sama, Vishama, Tikshna, or Manda)
- Lifestyle and meal-timing notes framed for learning — not prescriptions
- Context that pairs with Ama and Vikriti for fuller personalisation
- A profile stored in your account for Ask AI and related tools
Agni FAQs
Agni is digestive and transformative fire — the capacity to break down food and experiences into nourishment. Balanced Agni is associated with comfortable appetite, digestion, and clarity.
Educational disclaimer
Educational only — not a diagnosis of digestive disease, food allergy, or metabolic disorder. Persistent pain, bleeding, unexplained weight loss, or severe symptoms need clinical care, not an online quiz.
Assess your Agni
Spend about 5–10 minutes on digestive fire — then refine meal timing and lifestyle tips with clearer context.