Follow us On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vedic_sage/ Join Our Facebook Group [Over 36K members] https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheAyurvedaBoard Website: http://healthyayurveda.com/ Predominant sites of vāta include the urinary bladder, the large intestine or colon and the rectum. The waist, thighs, legs, and bone [or asthī dhātu] have a special affinity for vāta dosha. That said, of all the sites, the large intestine or the colon is the most important site of vāta dosha. Conditions such as foot drop, numbness in the foot, sciatica, pain and stiffness in the thighs or even extreme conditions such as paraplegia — or paralysis of the extremities … are conditions for which the underlying pathology is at the nerve or neuromuscular junction which explains just some of the various conditions of imbalanced vāta dosha. These conditions arise due to excess qualities of vāta which include excess rough, cold, dry and light qualities of vāta dosha. Similarly, imbalanced vāta may create instability whether it be abnormal movement such as trembling, circular movements, certain spasticity and contractions to the body. Also, vāta being of the ether/air elements and that which is formless & shapeless, abnormal vāta may be the underlying cause which creates looseness of bodily tissue causing dislocation, expansion, or separation of various channels of the body. Vāta is that which allows for perception, so any perceivable pain has some vāta involvement; whether it be piercing pain or aching pain — vāta is involved. Conditions such as cracking of joints, arthritis, - stiffness of muscles; such as stiffness in neck, back, thighs and/or ankles numbness, weakness or paralysis suggests vāta imbalance.