About Vaidyaratnam PS Varier Ayurveda College
Vaidyaratnam PS Varier Ayurveda College, Kottakkal is affiliated in University of Calicut. The Vaidyaratnam PS Varier Ayurveda College have the hostel facilities and all other infrastructures. The Vaidyaratnam PS Varier Ayurveda College provide Bachelor degree courses in Ayurveda. P.S. Varier set up a formal education Institution for Ayurveda in 1917. It was the second of its kind in Kerala. It has a history of its own. P.S. Varier took initiative to form an academic council named Aryavaidya Samajam which had academic control over the college, which was then called Aryavaidya Pathasala. P.S. Varier extended all financial support. He taught anatomy and physiology. He himself wrote Sanskrit texts for the purpose, which received acclaim from Ayurvedic scholars. Originally established at Kozhikode (Calicut, then) a small town near Kottakkal, it was shifted to Kottakkal when he established the Charitable Hospital there. This Hospital provided a centre for practical studies of the students. An allopathic wing was also attached to the Hospital and the doctor taught anatomy and took care of essential surgery in the Hospital. Facilities :-