About us · Est. 1984

Kolhapur’s first
Panchakarma centre.

Dr. Sunil B. Patil opened it at Laxmipuri in 1984. Today Dr. Pranav Patil and Dr. Sharayu Patil run it with the same care, the same oils, and a second generation’s training.

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The front of the clinic building in Laxmipuri, with the green signboard and the entrance steps

The round Swasthyartham Ayurveda sign lit under the trees

1984Kolhapur’s first Panchakarma centre

2Generations at the same desk

MDPanchakarma, both doctors

In-houseOils, ghritas and churnas

Our story

From one treatment room to a second generation.

The clinic has never moved from 1449 C Ward, Laxmipuri. What has changed is who sits at the desk, and what they bring to it.

The ribbon cutting at the inauguration of the Swasthyartham Ayurveda Panchakarma centre, with Dr. Pranav Patil and Dr. Sharayu Patil

1984
Kolhapur’s first Panchakarma centre
Dr. Sunil B. Patil opens an Ayurveda Panchakarma centre at Laxmipuri, the first of its kind in the city.
1990
Vanoushadhi Vidyapeeth
An organisation for Ayurveda awareness in Kolhapur: workshops on medicinal plants and panchakarma, and Vanoushadhi, an annual Diwali magazine.
1990sEarly
Ayurveda goes abroad
Leading the Maharshi movement, he takes Ayurveda to Europe and North America, and students from Japan, Serbia, Denmark, Malaysia and the Netherlands come to Kolhapur to learn.
2nd generation
Dr. Pranav and Dr. Sharayu join
Two MDs in Panchakarma bring sports medicine, mental wellness, fertility and skin care into the practice, and begin preparing the clinic’s medicines in house.
Today
Swasthyartham Ayurveda
The same door: consultation in clinic and online, Panchakarma courses, the Tejas beauty spa and a shop of in-house preparations.

A Nadi Vaidya who took Kolhapur’s Ayurveda to the world.

A popular name in Kolhapur and a veteran of Ayurveda, he read the pulse before anything else and did not prescribe until he understood the person. Patients came from across India and abroad, many for his work on liver disorders and the reversal of viral hepatitis. Leading the Maharshi movement in the early 1990s, he took Ayurveda to Europe and North America, travelled to more than twenty countries, and taught hundreds of students from Japan, Serbia, Denmark, Malaysia and the Netherlands.

He gave as much to Kolhapur as to Ayurveda. In 1990 he founded Vanoushadhi Vidyapeeth to teach medicinal plants and panchakarma locally and to publish Vanoushadhi, an annual Diwali magazine. An orator, actor and journalist, he wrote ten books on Ayurveda and health, and served as Vice Chairman of Chetana Vikas Mandir, a school for children with intellectual disabilities. For this work he received an honorary doctorate and the Maharshi Award, and served as President of the Maharashtra Council of Indian Medicine and of NIMA, Maharashtra State.

The second generation

The doctors carrying it forward.

Both grew up around Ayurveda, both chose it, and both trained to MD in Panchakarma. They consult in clinic and online.

डॉ. प्रणव पाटील

Dr. Pranav S. Patil

MD (Panchakarma) · Leads the Panchakarma unit

A fitness enthusiast who chose Ayurveda, and made sports rehabilitation his own field within it.

At the clinic he treats digestive complaints, male infertility, joint and rheumatic conditions, sports injuries, and anxiety and stress. Certified in Marma therapy, Ayurvedic sports rehabilitation and aromatherapy, he works as much on prevention as on recovery. His MD thesis was on Panchakarma for anxiety and stress, and he prepares most of the clinic’s medicines himself, to the founder’s recipes.

Consult Dr. Pranav Marma & Aroma therapy

डॉ. शरयू

Dr. Sharayu P. Patil

MD (Panchakarma), SDM College of Ayurveda, Udupi · Consulting physician

A second-generation vaidya herself, who chose Ayurveda over MBBS with the aptitude for both.

She looks after women’s health at the clinic: female fertility, Beejsanskar before conception and Garbhasanskar through pregnancy, along with hair and skin care and neurological conditions. A certified yoga instructor (Bihar School of Yoga) and Garbhasanskar coach, she runs therapeutic and prenatal yoga batches. She also leads Sharayu Herbals, her family’s thirty-year-old skin and hair care brand, and consults in English, Marathi, Hindi, Kannada and French.

Consult Dr. Sharayu Pregnancy programme

The clinic

1449 C Ward, Laxmipuri. Unchanged since 1984.

Mon to Sat, 10 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 8 pm. Walk in, or book a slot.

The clinic building at dusk with the lit sign — Laxmipuri, at dusk

Consultation room with a long wooden desk and a painting — Consultation

Reception with a cane sofa and a carved wooden panel — Reception

Copper pots, a stone mortar and a potli bundle laid out on a wooden table — Preparation

The round Swasthyartham Ayurveda sign under the trees — The sign

Made in house

Most of what we prescribe, we make.

Oils, ghritas, churnas, ubtans and Chyawanprash, prepared by Dr. Pranav in the clinic’s own room in small batches. A few are sold over the counter and online; the rest need a prescription.

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