G Shrinivasa Acharya (Author)
Dr. G. Shrinivasa Acharya is a well known Ayurvedic practitioner who has been working as an assistant professor at the SDM College of Ayurveda, physician at the SDM Ayurveda Hospital in Udupi as well as successfully running his own practice for the last seventeen years. He graduated in Ayurveda BAMS from Mysore University, Karnataka. He completed his MD at the Institute of post gradual training at Gujarat Ayurveda University in 1988 winning gold medal. He specializes in the field of Kaya Chikitsa, Panchakarma, rasayana and Vajikarana and his passion and the field or research is the system of therapeutic detoxification treatments-the Panchakarma. Dr. Acharya is a co-author of the internationally published integrative Medicine and The Panchakarma Illustrated is going to be his first individually published book. He is actively involved in research and has to his credit research articles in scientific magazines. He is a great speaker who gives lectures nation-wide. The Panchakarma illustrated is a practical and easy to use manual that is meant to reach the broad public as well as Ayurvedic specialists. Dr. Acharya resides in the town of Udupi, Karnataka with his wife and three children. He hopes that Ayurveda, the living tradition of a health science of India is going to keep gaining popularity and appreciation in both India and the rest of the world.