EveryHouse One Herb
The herb you already walk past
Most households in India already grow something medicinal without knowing it. Learning to see it is the first step, and it costs nothing.
· 4 min
Rishicare Wellness & Research Institute
Ayurveda you can
actually live by.
I'm Dr. Ramita Maharjan — an Ayurvedic physician and herbalist. I teach the daily practices, herbs and routines of the classical tradition, and I write them down so they're yours to keep.
BAMS · MD (Ayurveda, Dravyaguna) · PGD Panchakarma · PG Yoga (Gold Medalist)
Her portrait belongs here
A warm, environmental photograph — in the garden, in her own light, looking at the reader. Upload it under Photography → portrait and it appears here.
What brings you here?
Learn
Join a programme
Yoga, daily routine, herbs for the household, spice therapy, programmes for children. Taught in groups, online and at the ashram.
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Care
Consult a Vaidya
Personal consultation in the classical manner — constitution, pulse and tongue assessment, then guidance on food, routine and formulations.
Limited availability — enquiry first
Make an enquiry →
Read
The notebook
Notes on plants, food, routine and practice — written to be used, not admired. Free, and always will be.
Start reading →
Invite
For organisations
Lectures, workshops and teacher training. Research collaboration and editorial work.
Get in touch →Why the herbs
Most people walk past a pharmacy every day.
Your eyes don't see what your mind doesn't know.
Dr. Ramita MaharjanThat is what I teach: how to see what is already growing around you, and what to do with it. Start with one herb on your windowsill.
How I work →Why you can trust this
Everything taught here comes out of clinical practice and classical study — not from the internet. Dr. Ramita holds a BAMS and an MD in Dravyaguna (द्रव्यगुण), the study of medicinal substances, with a postgraduate diploma in Panchakarma and a gold-medal postgraduate degree in Yoga.
She practises, makes the medicines by hand, researches endangered Himalayan herbs, and edits classical texts into living languages — largely from an ashram seven kilometres outside Anekal.
Rishicare Wellness & Research Institute is one of seven divisions of Rishipath International Foundation.
From the Notebook
Recent writing.
Dinacharya
Eating before the sun goes down
Why the classical daily routine places the last meal in daylight, what the texts actually say about it, and how to begin without upending your household.
· 6 min
Research
What Ashtavarga means, and why eight plants are disappearing
Eight Himalayan drugs named in the classical rasayana literature. Several cannot be confidently identified today, and most are endangered. Both facts are connected.
· 9 min
Dinacharya · दिनचर्या
The order of a day.
Ayurveda prescribes a daily rhythm — dinacharya — aligning the body's work to the sun's. It is not a schedule so much as a discipline. This is the shape it takes at Rishiteertham.
Brahma muhurta
Yajna
यज्ञ
The day begins at the fire, before it begins anywhere else.
Morning
Svadhyaya
स्वाध्याय
Self-study. Reading — the second of the three disciplines the Foundation is built on.
Forenoon
Consultation
चिकित्सा
Patients, assessment, and the slow work of listening.
Midday
Formulation
भेषजकल्पना
The medicines are made here, by hand, from the garden outside.
Afternoon
Writing & the Institute
लेखन
Manuscripts, translation, editorial work, and the running of it all.
Before sunset
Ahara
आहार
The last meal of the day, taken while the sun is still up — as the classical routine prescribes.
Evening
Dhyana
ध्यान
Meditation. The third discipline, and the close of the day.
The faintest of the ink is better than the brightest memory.
— which is why any of this is written down at all
The writing →