Animal foods · Classically cited

Chicken

Kukkuta·कुक्कुट

Also called: murgi, huhn, poultry

Warming and building — Charaka regards fowl (Kukkuta) as strengthening and grounding for Vata.

How Chicken affects your doshas

In Ayurveda a food's effect depends on your constitution. This is the lens the app uses to suggest what to favour and ease off.

Effect of Chicken on each dosha
Dosha	Suitability	Notes
Vata	Balancing	Calms Vata — favour it when Vata runs high.
Pitta	Use sparingly	Can raise Pitta — go easy when Pitta runs high.
Kapha	Use sparingly	Can raise Kapha — go easy when Kapha runs high.

Taste: Sweet · Potency: Heating (uṣṇa) · Post-digestive: Sweet · Qualities: Heavy, Oily

Heating and heavy: it adds to Pitta and Kapha.

Classically cited. Directly attested in the classical Ayurvedic corpus.