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11 unusual facts about Ayurveda


Benedict Lust

He became known as the "Father of Naturopathy" in America, and his writings and magazines introduced Americans not only to German methods, but also Indian concepts of Ayurveda and Yoga.

Dimorphocalyx glabellus

Whole plant is used as an important medicinal plant in Ayurveda.

Horace Hayman Wilson

He was interested in Ayurveda and traditional Indian medical and surgical practices.

Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine

The Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal on ayurvedic medicine.

Manas Rural Development Institute

It conducts workshops to create awareness about the Indian science of Ayurveda and its benefits.

Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong

The Forbes Five-Star spa, one of only three in Hong Kong, draws on the established Asian healing philosophies of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda, offering a Vichy Shower, Traditional Chinese Medicine consultations, and Hong Kong’s first authentic Ayurvedic sanctuary.

Nomadicare

Nomadicare's founder Sas Carey began traveling to Mongolia in 1994 and studying traditional Mongolian medicine, a health system with roots in Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicine.

Nose piercing

This is because Ayurvedic medicine associates this location with the female reproductive organs.

Rani Spas

Rani's 20 different products are made from natural ingredients and are created under the influence of Ayurveda, a system of Indian traditional medicine.

Rani Spas is a multi-channel Ayurvedic spa and retail product company founded in 1994 and headquartered in Manhattan, New York.

Valivitta Thevar

He noticed the non-availability of medical and astrological facilities and trained himself in Siddha (a branch of Ayurveda) tradition of medicine and Astrology and served his folks as their doctor and astrologer.


Ayurveda in America

Robert Svoboda, a similar figure whose Ayurvedic education has roots in both formal and traditional Indian systems of schooling, also contributed to the promotion of Ayurveda in the late 1990s.

Bhai Vir Singh

Adept in Sanskrit and Braj as well as in the oriental systems of medicine (such as Ayurveda, Siddha and Yunani), Kahn Singh passed on his interests to his only son, Dr. Charan Singh.

California College of Ayurveda

The California College of Ayurveda Mind-Body Health center offers Panchakarma detoxification, purification, and rejuvenation as well as various spa therapies such as abhyangha (ayuvedic massage), svedana (steam therapy), shirodhara, facials and various basti therapies.

CytoSolve

CytoSolve was founded in 2011 by Dr. VA Shiva Ayyadurai, an inventor, systems scientist and MIT-trained systems biologist, following his doctoral research in molecular systems biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), department of Biological Engineering, and his field work in eastern and traditional systems of medicine such as Siddha, Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Dhatu

Dhātu (Ayurveda) -- Sanskrit word, plural Dhātus: the seven body tissues, or fundamental elements of the body.

Dinacharya Institute

The school has collaborated with the CSIR Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, The Agri-Horticultural Society of India, The National Research Institute of Ayurveda, The AVP Group, The Dept of AYUSH/Government of India, the Indian Institute of Toxicological Research, and the Nair Hospital of Bombay.

Dr. N.T.R. University of Health Sciences

The university has graduate and postgraduate degrees, diploma and super-specialty courses in Modern Medicine; graduate and postgraduate degree courses in Dental Surgery, Nursing, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, and Unani; graduate degree courses in Naturopathy, Physiotherapy and Medical Laboratory Technology; and a postgraduate course in M.Sc.

Gorantla Venkanna

From an early age Venkanna showed inclination towards Sanskrit language and literature, Ayurveda and Yoga.

Kashyapa Samhita

It is also part of the Ayurveda teaching syllabus especially in Kaumarbhrityal Balroga (Pediatrics).

Nanaji Deshmukh

The Wadia Group, Apeejay Education Society (AES), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), India Development and Relief Fund (IDRF), Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology (MPCST), India Development Coalition of America (IDCA), Department of Elementary Education (DEE), The Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Ayurveda Yoga & Naturopathy Unani Siddha and Homoeopathy(AYUSH) and Sewa International (SI)

Nasal irrigation

The earliest record of nasal irrigation is found in the ancient Hindu practice of Ayurveda whose roots are traced to the Vedas.

National Integrated Medical Association

Today NIMA is the only all India organisation of the institutionally trained and qualified practitioners of Indian Systems of Medicine, who have undergone the conjoint study of Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha,and modern medicine (Allopathy), for a period of at least four years after Inter Science or XIIth std (10 + 2 years education).

Partap Chauhan

Upon completion of his formal education, he did a five-year apprenticeship with Ayurveda expert, Nanak Chand Sharma, who taught him Ayurvedic Pharmacology, Alchemy and Rasashastra.

Pitambar Deva Goswami

He learnt Ayurveda, took lessons in classical music both vocal and instrumental (Sitar, Violin and Harmonium), invited experts from Calcutta to the Sattra, along with the traditional Sattriya from senior Sattra exponents.

Psoralea corylifolia

Psoralea corylifolia (Babchi) is an important plant in the Indian Ayurveda and Tamil Siddha systems of medicine, and also Chinese medicine.

Ramakrishna Sarada Math

Kiran Chandra and other lay devotees of the Math and Mission including Shyamadas Bachaspati, an ayurvedic practitioner who treated the Holy Mother and Bhutnath Mukherjee, a renowned chartered accountant, were opposed by the Belur Math administration during a general assembly session of the Mission in March, 1929.

Sarita Shrestha

Shrestha received a Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (B.A.M.S.) from the Jiwaji University, (Gwalior, India), a Certificate of Ayurveda Medicine and Surgery (CAMS) from the Tribhuvan University, (Kathmandu, Nepal) and in 1993 received a Medical Doctor in Ayurveda from the Benares Hindu University (Varanasi, India).

Siddha medicine

In 2012, VA Shiva Ayyadurai, a Tamilian and MIT systems scientist, launched an educational program for medical doctors through the Chopra Center with Deepak Chopra which integrates concepts from traditional systems medicine such as Siddha, Ayurveda, and traditional Chinese medicine, with systems science and systems biology.

Steven Engler

His research focuses on science and religion, including creationism and ayurveda, and, more recently, on Brazilian religions such as Kardecism and Umbanda, which he analyzes in light of theoretical concepts such as agency, deference, indexicality, hybridity and virtuality.

Yajnavaraha

Yajnavaraha (10th century) was priest-doctor and a royal physician at the court of king Rajendravarman in Angkor, Cambodia, practising traditional Cambodian medicine and Ayurveda.