Balance · གནས་ལུགས་ gnas lugs

The Three in Balance ཉེས་པ་གསུམ་

Health is the three nyépa each at their proper level. Push one humor toward excess below and watch how it acts on the other two — not evenly, and not always in the same direction. Leave it unaddressed and the tradition's own severity ladder applies: a single humor disturbed, then two combined, then — rarest and most serious — all three at once.
Pending menpa verification
This shows the qualitative direction classical texts describe (which humor reinforces, depletes or destabilizes another) — not a quantitative simulation. Sowa Rigpa does not assign numbers to these interactions.
This shows the qualitative direction classical texts describe (which humor reinforces, depletes or destabilizes another) — not a quantitative simulation. Sowa Rigpa does not assign numbers to these interactions.
Baekan
BaekanBalanced

depletes Tripa · destabilizes Loong

Tripa
TripaBalanced

depletes Baekan · reinforces Loong

Loong
LoongBalanced

reinforces Baekan · destabilizes Tripa

In balanceNo humor is currently disturbed.

Tap a humor above to push it out of balance.

What's happening

Push a humor above to see the cascade, and why it happens.

The classical taxonomy — single → combined → all-three
Wind disorderrlung nad

A single humor disturbed — the most treatable stage, before it has spread or combined with another.

Bile disordermkhris nad

A single humor disturbed — the most treatable stage, before it has spread or combined with another.

Phlegm disorderbad kan nad

A single humor disturbed — the most treatable stage, before it has spread or combined with another.

Wind–Bile combined disorderrlung mkhris 'dres pa

Wind and Bile now sustain each other — Wind's erratic drive keeps agitating Bile's heat, and that heat and dryness keep feeding Wind. Harder to settle than either alone.

Wind–Phlegm combined disorderrlung bad kan 'dres pa

A cold, heavy, obstructive pairing — Wind's weakened digestion feeds Phlegm, and Phlegm's blockage of the channels keeps deranging Wind's movement. A classically common, stubborn combination.

Bile–Phlegm combined disordermkhris bad kan 'dres pa

Heat and cold locked in direct opposition — each humor is actively depleting the other rather than merely coexisting, which tends to show as an unstable mix of hot and cold signs together.

Tridoshic (all-three) disordernyes pa gsum 'dus pa

The rarest and most serious classical category — all three humors disturbed at once. Considered the hardest presentation to treat, since correcting any one humor risks aggravating another.