About
Dr Sudha Asokan was born in 1954 to Kallayil Keshavan Vaidhiyar and Ammini at Kottapadi near the famous Guruvayur temple, in Thrissur district, Kerala. Her father was a famous Ayurvedic doctor and held a very high position in the Kerala Ayurvedic field. He was the head of the Cheruthurathy Ayurvedic hospital. He had a large following and people from all parts of Kerala visited him for treatment. Young Sudha used to accompany her father to the hospitals and listened diligently to the diagnoses he made. Here is where seeds of Ayurvedic interests were sown in her. Her grand father, late Kallayil Kunju Vaidyar also was an Ayurvedic physician well known in Kerala for his skill in the treatment of eye diseases. Dr Sudha earned her bachelors in Ayurvedic medicine (BAM) at the prestigious Kottakal Ayurvedic College in Kottakal, Kerala and her masters(MD) at the Ayurveda Post Graduate Research Center in Ayurveda,Trivandrum, Kerala. She then worked under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for a year in Nagercovil, Tamil Nadu, practising transcendental meditation. DrSudha has also undertaken a research project in Tribal Medicines under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in partnership with the Central Council for Research in Ayurveda and Siddha(CCRAS).
Qualifications
Post Graduate, MD - Ayurveda
