Names of many such Ezhava Vaidyans from social renaissance period and on wards are noted by the community and recorded in the books.Itti Achuden was reportedly an Ezhava,who helped Gowda saraswatha Brahmin Vaidyans from south canara to identify local names of herbs seen in the mountain regions of Malabar to prepare a Dutch treatise Hortus Malabaricus on plants of Malabar.Eventually he became a notable person as a Vaidyar.
Endoclita malabaricus | Trimeresurus malabaricus | Hortus Malabaricus | Male ''P. c. malabaricus'' in Shamirpet | Hortus Conclusus | Hortus conclusus | Detail of the multi-level terracing of the ''Hortus Palatinus'', which required the 'toppling the peaks of the mountains' by Salomon de Caus |