Devendra Triguna

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| name = Devendra Triguna

| birth_place = India

| occupation = Ayurveda practitioner

| known for = Ayurveda

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Devendra Triguna is an Indian Ayurveda practitioner, known for his expertise in Pulse diagnosis (Nadi vaidyam in Ayurvedic terms).{{cite web | url=http://internationalayurvedacongress.com/?popuppress=padmabhushan-vaidya-devendra-triguna | title=Padma Bhushan Vaidya Devendra Triguna | publisher=International Ayurveda Congress | date=2015 | access-date=4 November 2015}} He is a former honorary physician to the President of India{{cite web | url=http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=73054&sid=2 | title=Well known clinician and expert in pulse diagnosis Vaidya Triguna passes away | publisher=Pharma Biz | date=7 January 2013 | access-date=4 November 2015 | archive-date=5 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305120155/http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=73054&sid=2 | url-status=dead }} and the incumbent president of the Association of Manufacturers of Ayurvedic Medicine (AMAM){{cite web | url=http://amam-ayurveda.org/our_president.htm | title=President - Association of Manufacturers of Ayurvedic Medicine | publisher=Association of Manufacturers of Ayurvedic Medicine | date=2015 | access-date=4 November 2015}} and the All India Ayurvedic Congress (AIAC). The Government of India awarded him the fourth-highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 1999, and followed it up, a decade later, with the third-highest honour of the Padma Bhushan in 2009.{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}

Biography

Tiriguna was born in a family of traditional Ayurveda practitioner, to renowned Ayurvedic physician and Padma Vibhushan awardee, Brihaspati Dev Triguna and learned Ayurveda from his father.{{cite web | url=http://www.ayurvediccongress.com/?p=8 | title=VAIDYA DEVENDRA TRIGUNA | publisher=Ayurvedic Congress | date=2015 | access-date=4 November 2015}} He started his medical practice at his father's clinic, located in the periphery of New Delhi, in a village by name, Sarai Kale Khan. When Triguna retired from active practice shortly before his death in 2013, Devendra Triguna took over the management of the clinic.{{cite web | url=https://www.lifepositive.com/medicine-and-treatment-in-india/ | title=Medicine and treatment in India | publisher=Life Positive | date=September 1997 | access-date=4 November 2015}} He claims to have curative protocols for several diseases such as Blood cancer, kidney ailments, abdominal diseases, skin diseases, Spondylitis, asthma, arthritis, insomnia and Hyper tension.{{cite web | url=http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/general/all-roads-lead-to-delhi-vaidya-s-clinic-1.370917 | title=All roads lead to Delhi Vaidya's clinic | publisher=Gulf News | date=24 November 2003 | access-date=4 November 2015}}

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 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare 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{{cite web | url=http://www.ravdelhi.nic.in/index1.asp?linkid=348&langid=1 | title=Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth | publisher=Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth governing body | date=2015 | access-date=4 November 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112114745/http://www.ravdelhi.nic.in/index1.asp?linkid=348&langid=1 | archive-date=12 January 2016 | url-status=dead }} and the founder president of the International Ayurveda Congress.{{cite web | url=http://internationalayurvedacongress.com/about-2/ | title=International Ayurveda Congress Founder president | publisher=International Ayurveda Congress | date=2015 | access-date=4 November 2015}} 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 Oriental Bank of Commerce. He is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Punjab National Bank and a is a visiting faculty of Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya.

Triguna is an elected Fellow of the Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth (1995-95).{{cite web | url=http://www.ravdelhi.nic.in/index1.asp?linkid=341&langid=1 | title=Fellows of Vidyapeeth | publisher=Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth | date=2015 | access-date=4 November 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112114723/http://www.ravdelhi.nic.in/index1.asp?linkid=341&langid=1 | archive-date=12 January 2016 | url-status=dead }} The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1999 and he was included again in the 2009 Republic Day honours list for the third highest honour, Padma Bhushan. He has also been honoured by Lal Bahadur Shastri University and Gujarat Ayurveda University with DLitt degrees.{{portal|India|Medicine}}

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{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsAMIxxUALY | title=Ayurveda: Views of Vaidya Devendra Triguna | publisher=News Desk India | work=YouTube video | date=14 November 2012 | access-date=4 November 2015}}

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