Devendra Triguna is an Indian

Ayurveda Ayurveda () is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. The theory and practice of Ayurveda is pseudoscientific. Ayurveda is heavily practiced in India and Nepal, where around 80% of the population repo ...

practitioner, known for his expertise in

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(''Nadi vaidyam'' in Ayurvedic terms). He is a former honorary physician to the

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and the incumbent president of the Association of Manufacturers of Ayurvedic Medicine (AMAM) and the All India Ayurvedic Congress (AIAC). The Government of India awarded him the fourth-highest civilian award, the

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, in 1999, and followed it up, a decade later, with the third-highest honour of the

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in 2009.

Biography

Tiriguna was born in a family of traditional

practitioner, to renowned Ayurvedic physician and

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awardee, Brihaspati Dev Triguna and learned

from his father. He started his medical practice at his father's clinic, located in the periphery of New Delhi, in a village by name,

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. When Triguna retired from active practice shortly before his death in 2013, Devendra Triguna took over the management of the clinic. He claims to have curative protocols for several diseases such as

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, kidney ailments, abdominal diseases, skin diseases,

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, insomnia and Hyper tension. Triguna is the president of the ''All India Ayurvedic Congress'' and the vice president of ''Central Council of Indian Medicines'', a Government of India nodal agency. He sits in the ''Central Council for Research in Ayurveda'' of the

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and the ''Ayurveda Pharmacopoeia Committee'' of the Government of India. He presides over the governing body of the ''Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth'', a Government of India centre of higher learning for Ayurveda and the founder president of the ''International Ayurveda Congress''. He sits in the Ayurveda advisory committees of the Governments of Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and serves as a member of the Employees' State Insurance Corporation, Board of Ayurveda and Unani Tibbia College and the board of directors of

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. He is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the

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and a is a visiting faculty of

Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya Gurukula Kangri ( deemed to be university) ('गुरुकुल कांगड़ी समविश्वविद्यालय') is a government-funded deemed to be university u/s 3 of the UGC act 1956 located in Haridwar, Uttarakhand ...

. Triguna is an elected Fellow of the ''Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth'' (1995-95). The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the

in 1999 and he was included again in the 2009 Republic Day honours list for the third highest honour,

. He has also been honoured by Lal Bahadur Shastri University and Gujarat Ayurveda University with DLitt degrees.

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