Kottakkal: Arya Vaidya Sala managing trustee and former chief physician Aryavaidyan P K Warrier (100) passed away here on Saturday.

P K Warrier who turned 100 on June 8 had taken the Arya Vaidya Sala to great heights in the last six decades. His name has been synonymous with Kottakkal Ayurveda.

P K Warrier was born on June 5, 1921 in Kottakal in Malappuram. Dr. Warrier has tried to propagate the holistic approach to treatment of diseases through his writings and speeches. His writings, speeches and research papers have been compiled under the title ‘Padamudrakal’.

In order to make the medicinal preparations more accurate, he established a research laboratory for the identification of medicinal plants and ascertain the chemical identity of its pharmaceutical constituents. Now, this facility has grown into the Centre for Medicinal Plants Research, a full-fledged research institution.

He won Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Biography and Autobiography for Smrithi Parvam in 2008.  Warrier received the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan Award in 2010 for his contribution to Ayurveda.

Besides his research activities, Warrier authored and researched several papers in ethnopharmacology and Ayurveda.