Ayurveda
Ayurveda is among the oldest documented medical systems still practised at scale. This page covers the classical compendia and their authors alongside the modern figures who institutionalised Ayurvedic training, pharmacology and clinical research.
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P. S. Varier
1869 – 1944Founded Arya Vaidya Sala at Kottakkal and industrialised classical Ayurvedic pharmacy.
India·Ayurveda · Education
Shiv Sharma
1906 – 1980Led the campaign that won Ayurveda statutory recognition in independent India.
India·Ayurveda · Education
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1918 – 2008Exported Transcendental Meditation and revived classical Ayurveda as a global health programme.
India·Ayurveda · Integrative Medicine