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The story of Guru Remedies starts in the early 19th century in Tinnevelly, a small village in south India. Here, Nullamuthu Visuvasam was a catechist and an eminent Indian physician, trained in both western medicine and ancient Indian ayurvedic techniques. In his explorations of healing and prayer, Visuvasam encountered Sanyasis (ascetics) who favored him with certain rare recipes and formulations. With a knowledge grounded in these eclectic sources, Visuvasam began to experiment and create the first of many remedies that he used to help people in the very infancy of modern medicine. These formulations he passed down to his grandson Dr. Samuel Mathuram and he, in turn to his son, Dr. A. Mathuram, the sole proprietor of Guru Medical Hall. Arun Mathuram the great grandson of the legendary Dr. A. Mathuram started GuruRemedies.com in 2005 to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors and keep alive a family legacy of reaching, healing, caring, and giving
Not much more is known about Nullamuthu Visuvasam, the information we have today has been gleaned from writings of visiting Englishmen and local lore. But we do know that his grandson, Dr. Samuel Mathuram, was born in 1849 in a little town in South India called Nazareth. He too was a successful and well loved physician. The family tradition continued in Dr. A. Mathuram who was educated in ayurvedic, homeopathic, and allopathic medicine and practiced as a missionary physician alongside his father. |