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Kottakkal
Also known as Kottakkal — Arya Vaidya Sala
The Arya Vaidya Sala and Kottakkal Ayurvedic hospital at Kottakkal in Malappuram district, Kerala, founded in 1902 by Vaidyaratnam P.S. Varier (1869-1944) — a Kerala Thiyya Ayurvedic physician who created the subcontinent's first large modern institutional centre for Ayurvedic practice, manufacturing and research. The Arya Vaidya Sala pioneered standardised Ayurvedic drug manufacturing on industrial lines (over 500 products currently) with scientific quality control. The adjoining Vaidyaratnam P.S. Varier Ayurveda College (1917) was one of the first colleges to teach Ayurveda alongside Western medicine, and the Charitable Hospital treats about 300,000 patients annually. The 2003 WHO recognition of Ayurveda as an official Traditional Medicine system owes much to the Kottakkal model.
- Date
- 1902–2026
- Function
- Science & medicine
- Condition
- living institution
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 11.000, 76.000
Connections (2)
- Teaching lineageVāgbhata
Kerala's Ayurveda works almost entirely from Vāgbhata's Ashtānga Hridaya rather than from Charaka or Sushruta, and the Ashtavaidya families there have transmitted it for centuries. Kottakkal's Arya Vaidya Sala grew out of exactly that inheritance and then industrialised it — standard formulations, published recipes, a factory, a hospital and a college, which is a considerable change of kind in one generation.
- Peer institutionAll India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi
AIIA at Delhi and Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala in Kerala are India's apex teaching-and-manufacturing centres of classical Āyurveda.
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Sources
Arya Vaidya Sala institutional history.
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