Divi Gopalacharlu

Divi Gopalacharlu (1872 to 1920) was an Indian Ayurvedic physician and scholar, born in Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh into a Vaishnava Brahmin family with a long line of physicians on both sides. He studied at the Maharajah's Ayurveda Oriental School at Mysore in the 1890s and was then placed in charge of the Theosophical Society's Vaidyasala in Bangalore. He worked to systematize the knowledge of the classical Ayurvedic texts and to build institutions for the practice, and he is credited with creating two botanical remedies, Haimadi Panakam and Satadhouta Ghritam, the latter used against plague in Mysore. He helped start the Madras Ayurveda Laboratories and the Ayurvedic College at Madras, served as president of the All India Ayurvedic Vidyapeeth, and received the titles Vaidyaratna and Ayurveda Marthanda Bhishmagrani. He practiced Ayurveda at a time when British authorities were hostile to indigenous medical systems. This entry records what he held and did, and is not medical advice.