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Founded Arya Vaidya Sala at Kottakkal and industrialised classical Ayurvedic pharmacy.

Led the campaign that won Ayurveda statutory recognition in independent India.

Exported Transcendental Meditation and revived classical Ayurveda as a global health programme.

The century's most celebrated pulse diagnostician; chaired India's central Ayurvedic council.

Pioneer of reverse pharmacology, translating classical formulas into clinical trials.

Founded the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico and trained the first Western practitioners.

Endocrinologist turned global voice of mind-body medicine; contested by clinical researchers.

Vedic scholar whose texts linked Ayurveda, yoga and jyotish for Western students.

First Westerner to earn India's BAMS degree and license; interpreter of Ayurveda for the West.

Made yoga and Ayurveda a mass movement and a corporate empire; repeatedly censured over health claims.