Vaidyakalanidhi V I Varghese Vaidyan's Kayalvarathu Ayurvedic Hospital has completed over a hundred years of meritorious service in the field of Ayurvedic treatment and medicine in Kerala. Vaidyakalanidhi Kayalvarathu V I Varghese Vaidyan, the founder of the hospital, inherited the medicine and methods of treatment from his father Kayalvarathu Kochidichandi Assan, a well known physician of those times. Varghese Vaidyan envisaged a bright future for Ayurveda and dedicated his life for the promotion of natural medicine. He treated all kinds of disease found among the modern people.