अष्ट निन्दित पुरूष :

अष्ट निन्दित पुरूष ( aṣṭa nindita purusha )
Meaning: Eight types of undesirable constitutions are there,those are as fallows Too tall, too short, too hairy, hairless, too white, too black, too corpulent and too emaciated. These constitutions are considered as undesirable because they do not possess sufficient resistance power against diseases. The qualitative and quantitative proportions of the tisues are not proper in them. The measurement by finger ( Anguli Pramana) of the body and compactness of the tissue is also abnormal. Some opines that 8 types of undesirable constitutions are mainly related to some sort of hormonal dysfunction of the body. Dysfunction of thyroid, gonads, adrenal cortex and pituitary etc.