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{{short description|Indian Ayurvedic physician|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Devendra Triguna
| birth_place = India
| occupation = [[Ayurveda]] practitioner
| known for = [[Ayurveda]]
| parents = [[Brihaspati Dev Triguna]]
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]]<br />[[Padma Shri]]
}}
'''Devendra Triguna''' is an Indian [[Ayurveda]] practitioner, known for his expertise in [[Pulse diagnosis]] (''Nadi vaidyam'' in Ayurvedic terms).<ref name="Padma Bhushan Vaidya Devendra Triguna">{{cite web | url=http://internationalayurvedacongress.com/?popuppress=padmabhushan-vaidya-devendra-triguna | title=Padma Bhushan Vaidya Devendra Triguna | publisher=International Ayurveda Congress | date=2015 | access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref> He is a former honorary physician to the [[President of India]]<ref name="Well known clinician and expert in pulse diagnosis Vaidya Triguna passes away">{{cite web | url=http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=73054&sid=2 | title=Well known clinician and expert in pulse diagnosis Vaidya Triguna passes away | publisher=Pharma Biz | date=7 January 2013 | access-date=4 November 2015 | archive-date=5 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305120155/http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=73054&sid=2 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and the incumbent president of the Association of Manufacturers of Ayurvedic Medicine (AMAM)<ref name="President - Association of Manufacturers of Ayurvedic Medicine">{{cite web | url=http://amam-ayurveda.org/our_president.htm | title=President - Association of Manufacturers of Ayurvedic Medicine | publisher=Association of Manufacturers of Ayurvedic Medicine | date=2015 | access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref> and the All India Ayurvedic Congress (AIAC).<ref name="Padma Bhushan Vaidya Devendra Triguna" /> The Government of India awarded him the fourth-highest civilian award, the [[Padma Shri]], in 1999, and followed it up, a decade later, with the third-highest honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2009.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Tiriguna was born in a family of traditional [[Ayurveda]] practitioner, to renowned Ayurvedic physician and [[Padma Vibhushan]] awardee, [[Brihaspati Dev Triguna]] and learned [[Ayurveda]] from his father.<ref name="VAIDYA DEVENDRA TRIGUNA">{{cite web | url=http://www.ayurvediccongress.com/?p=8 | title=VAIDYA DEVENDRA TRIGUNA | publisher=Ayurvedic Congress | date=2015 | access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref> He started his medical practice at his father's clinic, located in the periphery of New Delhi, in a village by name, [[Sarai Kale Khan]]. When Triguna retired from active practice shortly before his death in 2013, Devendra Triguna took over the management of the clinic.<ref name="Medicine and treatment in India">{{cite web | url=https://www.lifepositive.com/medicine-and-treatment-in-india/ | title=Medicine and treatment in India | publisher=Life Positive | date=September 1997 | access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref> He claims to have curative protocols for several diseases such as [[Blood cancer]], kidney ailments, abdominal diseases, skin diseases, [[Spondylitis]], [[asthma]], [[arthritis]], insomnia and [[Hyper tension]].<ref name="All roads lead to Delhi Vaidya's clinic">{{cite web | url=http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/general/all-roads-lead-to-delhi-vaidya-s-clinic-1.370917 | title=All roads lead to Delhi Vaidya's clinic | publisher=Gulf News | date=24 November 2003 | access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref>

Triguna is the president of the ''All India Ayurvedic Congress''<ref name="Padma Bhushan Vaidya Devendra Triguna" /> and the vice president of ''Central Council of Indian Medicines'', a Government of India nodal agency. He sits in the ''Central Council for Research in Ayurveda'' of the [[Ministry of Health and Family Welfare]] and the ''Ayurveda Pharmacopoeia Committee'' of the Government of India.<ref name="President - Association of Manufacturers of Ayurvedic Medicine" /> He presides over the governing body of the ''Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth'', a Government of India centre of higher learning for Ayurveda<ref name="Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth governing body">{{cite web | url=http://www.ravdelhi.nic.in/index1.asp?linkid=348&langid=1 | title=Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth | publisher=Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth governing body | date=2015 | access-date=4 November 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112114745/http://www.ravdelhi.nic.in/index1.asp?linkid=348&langid=1 | archive-date=12 January 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and the founder president of the ''International Ayurveda Congress''.<ref name="International Ayurveda Congress Founder president">{{cite web | url=http://internationalayurvedacongress.com/about-2/ | title=International Ayurveda Congress Founder president | publisher=International Ayurveda Congress | date=2015 | access-date=4 November 2015}}</ref> He sits in the Ayurveda advisory committees of the Governments of Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and serves as a member of the [[Employees' State Insurance|Employees' State Insurance Corporation]], Board of [[Tibbia College|Ayurveda and Unani Tibbia College]] and the board of directors of [[Oriental Bank of Commerce]]. He is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the [[Punjab National Bank]] and a is a visiting faculty of [[Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya]].<ref name="President - Association of Manufacturers of Ayurvedic Medicine" />

Triguna is an elected Fellow of the ''Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth'' (1995-95).<ref name="Fellows of Vidyapeeth">{{cite web | url=http://www.ravdelhi.nic.in/index1.asp?linkid=341&langid=1 | title=Fellows of Vidyapeeth | publisher=Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth | date=2015 | access-date=4 November 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112114723/http://www.ravdelhi.nic.in/index1.asp?linkid=341&langid=1 | archive-date=12 January 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]] in 1999 and he was included again in the 2009 [[Indian honours system|Republic Day honours]] list for the third highest honour, [[Padma Bhushan]].<ref name="Padma Awards" /> He has also been honoured by Lal Bahadur Shastri University and [[Gujarat Ayurveda University]] with DLitt degrees.<ref name="President - Association of Manufacturers of Ayurvedic Medicine" />{{portal|India|Medicine}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsAMIxxUALY | title=Ayurveda: Views of Vaidya Devendra Triguna | publisher=News Desk India | work=[[YouTube]] video | date=14 November 2012 | access-date=4 November 2015}}

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