Ayurveda Physician Dr. P.K. Warrior passed away

Dr Panayambally Krishnakutty Warrier, doyen of ayurveda medicine and managing trustee of Vaidyaratnam P S Varier’s Arya Vaidya Sala passed away.

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Joining as a factory manager in 1947 at the centre, which had been founded by his nephew P S Varier in 1902, Warrier became the chief physician and the managing trustee in 1953 following the death of his elder brother P M Varier in an air crash.

One year later, he opened a nursing home and started Panchakarma and other Kerala special therapies. That care centre, the first of such facilities in the traditional healing system, later grew into a leading research centre.

In 1970, then Indian President V V Giri flew to Kottakkal village to get ayurvedic treatment under Warrier, bringing national attention to the traditional method.