Devendra Triguna is an Indian Ayurveda practitioner, known for his expertise in Pulse diagnosis.
12 Facts About Devendra Triguna
Devendra Triguna is a former honorary physician to the President of India and the incumbent president of the Association of Manufacturers of Ayurvedic Medicine and the All India Ayurvedic Congress.
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.
Devendra Triguna 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.
Devendra 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.
Devendra Triguna 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.
Devendra Triguna presides over the governing body of the Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth, a Government of India centre of higher learning for Ayurveda and the founder president of the International Ayurveda Congress.
Devendra Triguna 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.
Devendra Triguna is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Punjab National Bank and a is a visiting faculty of Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya.
Devendra Triguna is an elected Fellow of the Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth.
Devendra Triguna has been honoured by Lal Bahadur Shastri University and Gujarat Ayurveda University with DLitt degrees.