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Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Physicians, sages and modern practitioners of Ayurveda and the other classical and living traditional medicine systems of South Asia, including the Siddha tradition of Tamil medicine. This covers the ancient sages credited with systematizing Ayurvedic theory and the physicians of ancient and medieval India who practiced it, twentieth and twenty-first century Vaidyas known for clinical practice such as pulse diagnosis, founders and teachers who built modern Ayurvedic institutions, hospitals or product lines, and Western-born writers and practitioners who trained formally in Ayurveda and teach or practice it as their primary discipline. A figure whose traditional medicine identity is Unani, Chinese or another named system instead is grouped there rather than here, even when their own biography also touches Ayurveda in passing.

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Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine
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Agnivesha

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Atreya

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Balendu Prakash

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Balkrishna

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Bhaskar Vishwananth Ghokale

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Bhavamishra

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Bogar

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Brihaspati Dev Triguna

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Cameron Alborzian

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Chakrapani Datta

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Dada Vaidya

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Dattatraya Parchure

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

David Frawley

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Devendra Triguna

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Divi Gopalacharlu

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Jamini Bhushan Ray

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Jīvaka

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Jogesh Chandra Ghosh

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Kiran Vyas

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Krishna Chandra Chunekar

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Lakshmikutty

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Madhava-kara

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Malladihalli Raghavendra

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Nancy Lonsdorf

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Om Prakash Upadhyaya

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Ram Harsh Singh

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Ramdev

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Todd Caldecott

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Uday Chand Dutt

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Vaidya Bhagwan Dash

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Vaidya Suresh Chaturvedi

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Vaidyaratnam Triprangode Moossad

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine

Yajnavaraha

Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine
Sources
1. Ayurveda (Wikipedia)
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  • Ayurveda, classical texts era
    The main classical Ayurveda texts are datable in their present form to the first centuries CE.
  • Ayurveda, region
    Ayurveda ( AH-yoor-VAY-də, -⁠VEE-; IAST: āyurveda) is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent.
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Vaidya Suresh Chaturvedi (Wikipedia)
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was an Ayurveda practitioner from Rajasthan, India
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Dattatraya Parchure (Wikipedia)
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began practising Ayurvedic medicine in Gwalior
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Bhavamishra (Wikipedia)
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most revered writers in Ayurveda
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Krishna Chandra Chunekar (Wikipedia)
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Indian ayurvedic practitioner
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Uday Chand Dutt (Wikipedia)
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expert on Ayurveda
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Ram Harsh Singh (Wikipedia)
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Indian practitioner of the Ayurveda system
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Divi Gopalacharlu (Wikipedia)
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Ayurvedic scholar
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Vaidyaratnam Triprangode Moossad (Wikipedia)
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Ayurveda practitioner from Kerala
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Lakshmikutty (Wikipedia)
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practicing traditional medicine
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Chakrapani Datta (Wikipedia)
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practitioner of Ayurveda medicine
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Vaidya Bhagwan Dash (Wikipedia)
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Ayurvedic and Tibetan Medicine
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Om Prakash Upadhyaya (Wikipedia)
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Indian Ayurveda practitioner
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Dada Vaidya (Wikipedia)
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was an ayurvedic practitioner
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Yajnavaraha (Wikipedia)
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practising traditional Cambodian medicine and Ayurveda
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Nancy Lonsdorf (Wikipedia)
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practices Maharishi Ayurveda
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Kiran Vyas (Wikipedia)
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Ayurveda practitioner
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Madhava-kara (Wikipedia)
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was a 7th-century or early 8th-century Indian Ayurveda practitioner
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Jamini Bhushan Ray (Wikipedia)
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Jamini Bhushan Ray (Bengali: যামিনী ভূষণ রায়; 1 July 1879 (17 Asharh 1286 BS), 11 August 1926 (26 Srabon 1333 BS)) was an Indian Ayurvedic physician, Sanskrit scholar, educator, and philanthropist.
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Bhaskar Vishwananth Ghokale (Wikipedia)
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was an Indian Ayurveda practitioner, Ayurvedic teacher, freedom fighter, and philosopher
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