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
Your eyes don't see what your mind doesn't know.
Dr. Ramita MaharjanDr. Ramita Maharjan
वैद्य · ऋषिपथ
Ayurvedic physician, herbalist, researcher.
Director — Rishicare Wellness & Research Institute, Bengaluru
The Physician
She trained in Ayurveda, Yoga and Sanskrit — BAMS, MD in Dravyaguna (द्रव्यगुण), the study of medicinal substances, a postgraduate diploma in Panchakarma, and a gold-medal postgraduate degree in Yoga.
Her work sits where the Rishipath tradition insists it should: on Tarka, Tathya and Pramaana — logic, fact and evidence. She practises, formulates, researches, edits and teaches, largely from an ashram seven kilometres outside Anekal.
Rishicare Wellness & Research Institute is one of seven divisions of Rishipath International Foundation.
The Practice
Four domains, one discipline.
i.
Vaidya
चिकित्सा
Consultation through Rishicare modalities — prakriti assessment, nadi pariksha, jihva pariksha. Garbha Sanskara and Suvarnaprashna Sanskara for mothers and children.
Practising physician
ii.
Research
अनुसन्धान
Medicinal plants — their identification, pharmacology and conservation. Including the Ashtavarga group, of which Jeevaka is the first.
Dravyaguna · Ashtavarga
iii.
Writing
लेखन
Books authored, co-authored, edited and translated. Yoga Vijnana in more than twenty languages. Siddhasaar Samhita in English. Editor for national and international journals.
Books · papers · journals
iv.
Teaching
अध्यापन
Project Shuddhi. EveryHouse One Herb. Natural Health & Wellness Techniques for Juniors, designed in 2020 for ages 4 to 21.
Programmes founded
The Research
Jeevaka.
A rare and endangered herb of the Ashtavarga group, described in the classical rasayana literature and disputed in its botanical identification ever since. Her work is the first of its kind anywhere in the world.
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 →