A dosha, according to Ayurveda, is one of three bodily humors that make up ones constitution. These teachings are also known as the Tridosha theory.
The central concept of Ayurvedic medicine is the theory that health exists when there is a balance between three fundamental bodily humours or doshas called Vata, Pitta and Kapha.
This test gathers information about your basic nature the way you were as a child and the basic patterns that have been true for most of your life. If you developed an illness in childhood or as an adult, think of how things were for you before that illness. If more than one quality is applicable in each characteristic, choose the one that applies the most.
For fairly objective physical traits, your choice will usually be obvious. Because mental traits and behavior tend to be more subjective, you should answer according to how you have felt and acted most of your life, or at least in the past few years.