Born in Circa
1640 AD, Cherthala, Kerala, India,He is a Ayurvedic physician, Botanical expert,
incumbent "Kollat Vaidyan" during the period 1670–1700 AD. The ethno-medical information presented in Hortus Malabaricus was extracted
from palm-leaf manuscripts maintained by Itty Achudan Vaidyan, who was
introduced to Henrik van Rheede by Veera Kerala Varma the then ruler of the
erstwhile state of Kochi. The book was compiled by the Dutch Governor of
Malabar, Hendrik
van Rheede, and published posthumously in Amsterdam between 1678 and
1693.Awide research is the need of the hour for the present and up
coming Generations in the works of Itty Achudan Vaidyan.
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