... their intellectual debt. Vaidya Hardikar, born in 1925, had been practicing in Maninagar, Ahmedabad, since 1967. Prior to this, he was looking after his father's Ayurvedic dispensary in Chandod, Baroda District, Gujarat State. He described himself as a traditional Vaidya who had studied Ayurveda...

... to treatment. Traditionally, Ayurveda practitioners prepared their own medicines and provided them to the patients. Over the years with the growth of Ayurvedic companies and setting up of private Ayurvedic pharmacies, the practitioners tended to rely on medicines supplied by the companies. These medicines were...