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Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra

Birth Date: 5 August 1952

Brith Place: Bhagalpur, BR, India

Died: 13 April 2017 (aged 64)[1] in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra (also written as Vaidya RK Mishra) was an ayurvedic-medicine practitioner, herbal formulator, educator,  writer, and lecturer. He was born in 1952 in Bhagalpur, Bihar, India; immigrated to the United States in the early 1980s.

Born in a family of traditional Vaidyas (Ayurvedic physicians), he studied Āyurveda from his father Kameshwar Mishra from a young age and then embarked upon formal education from Bihar University (Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University).[2]

This was followed by a Sanskrit Degree from KSD University (Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University), he traveled to the USA to work for MAPI (Maharishi Ayurveda) where he jointly authored a number of books on Ayurveda.

He introduced combining Ayurveda and traditional knowledge with modern methods, which he called "from sutra to science", he was the first Ayurvedic physician to discuss harmful effects of EMF and EMR,[3] which he proposed long before the recent confirmation that EMF and EMR have biologically harmful effects. He also placed a strong emphasis on diet as a method of prevention and treatment and spent much time researching and understanding the impacts of different foods and methods of processing and preparing foods on maintaining good health.[4]

His notable work on cancer is widely popular; the Answer to Cancer: Is Never Giving It A Chance To Start [5]

For five years (between 1985 and 1991), he wrote a popular Ayurveda column for two of India's leading daily newspapers Prabhat Khabar and Uditvani. During that same period, Vaidya Mishra was interviewed for over 50 radio and television programs, he had also been interviewed about Ayurveda in numerous publications in Japan, Italy, and the U.S., and wrote and lectured extensively worldwide. He died on 13 April 2017.[1]

References

^ a b "Vaidya Mishra's Newsletter #16, Vol 7, April 27, 2017 - A Tribute to Vaidya Mishra". myemail.constantcontact.com. Retrieved 2017-10-27.

^ "About - Vaidya Mishra's Ayurveda Knowledge Blog". Vaidya Mishra's Ayurveda Knowledge Blog. 2013-08-19. Retrieved 2017-04-14.

^ Administrator. "Electromagnetic Toxins". www.layogamagazine.com. Retrieved 2017-04-14.

^ Administrator. "Secrets Of An Ayurvedic Kitchen". www.layogamagazine.com. Retrieved 2017-04-14.

^ "The Answer to Cancer: Is Never Giving It A Chance To Start".