Vaidya Suresh Chaturvedi

Vaidya Suresh Chaturvedi (1928 to 2017) was an Indian practitioner of Ayurveda, born into a Brahmin family whose father served in the Bharatpur State police, who moved to Mumbai in 1938. He studied Ayurveda at colleges in Jaipur, Lahore and Calcutta, was awarded the degree of vaidya kaviraj, trained as a disciple under senior vaidyas and then opened his own practice in Vile Parle, Mumbai. He guided doctoral students at the University of Mumbai, held posts on national Ayurvedic bodies, and wrote thirty-one books on Ayurveda in Hindi, English, Gujarati and Marathi, among them titles on diet, cancer and the neem tree, which he promoted widely. He received the Padma Shri in 2000 among many honours. Nothing here is medical advice.