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Hakim Ajmal Khan
1868 – 1927Physician of Unani medicine who built its modern colleges and led the Indian National Congress.
India·Integrative Medicine · Education
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1918 – 2008Exported Transcendental Meditation and revived classical Ayurveda as a global health programme.
India·Ayurveda · Integrative Medicine
B. K. S. Iyengar
1918 – 2014Turned yoga into a precise therapeutic method taught in clinics and studios worldwide.
India·Integrative Medicine · Education
Tenzin Choedrak
1922 – 2001Personal physician to the Dalai Lama who preserved Tibetan medicine through 17 years of imprisonment.
China·Integrative Medicine · Medicine
Michio Kushi
1926 – 2014Carried macrobiotics from postwar Japan to the West and into the diet-and-disease debate.
Japan·Nutrition · Integrative Medicine
Deepak Chopra
b. 1946Endocrinologist turned global voice of mind-body medicine; contested by clinical researchers.
India·Integrative Medicine · Ayurveda