Ashtavaidya, a unique practice of Ayurvedic medicine is an amalgamation of the codified Ayurvedic medical knowledge and non-codified folk medical tradition of India, and is practiced by a few physician families in Kerala. Like many other forms of indigenous knowledge, the Ashtavaidya tradition suffers from lack of support, and the rapidly diminishing numbers of practitioners threatens its very existence.
In early times Ashtavaidyas were not allowed to enter in to matrimonial alliance from Nambudiri families. More over like Nambudiri's only eldest male member of the family was allowed to marry from the same community.
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