The wealth of Ayurveda comes to you straight out of historical palm leaf manuscripts that are still sitting safely in the Kerala home of the Thaivalappil family. Currently run by Hema, the MD of the company, the venture was actually started by her father – he used to make and sell a few kinds of Ayurvedic medicines, while his wife, Hema’s mother was an Ayurvedic doctor. Her father had been one too. And that’s really the only way the knowledge of Ayurveda truly carries forward – from generation to generation.