Rasa : The Six Tastes
In Ayurveda, Rasa can mean feeling or emotion as well as taste. And each of the tastes can have a subtle emotional or mental effect on our awareness, as well as on our physical state.
The knowledge of Rasa or taste is considered very important for the purpose of treatment. Charaka brings this out very succinctly in this way: “A physician well versed with the classification of Rasa and Dosha seldom commits a mistake in diagnosing and treating a disease.”
There are six tastes identified by Ayurveda