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My Journey

With Ayurveda

Dr. Reshma is an Ayurvedic Consultant, thinker, and reformist who brings sharp clarity to a field often lost in either exoticism or dismissal. Her work sits at the intersection of śāstra and science — where classical Ayurvedic knowledge meets critical clinical reasoning.

In a world that markets oil massages as “detox” and dismisses Ayurveda as pseudoscience, Dr. Reshma does neither. She decodes the original texts, challenges shallow interpretations, and confronts both wellness-industry dilution and biomedical scepticism with evidence-backed thought.

Dr. Reshma's voice is bold, her standards are high, and her commitment is unwavering: to bring Ayurveda back to its roots — not as a wellness aesthetic, but as a precise, preventive, and curative medical science.

Whether she’s calling out commercial spas disguised as “wellness centres,” responding to allopathic critiques with rigour, or reminding the community that prevention isn’t a product, it’s a discipline. In a field where the true art of medicine is being lost to noise and novelty, Dr. Reshma remains a rare voice of clarity and conviction.

Ayurveda Rationalist, Text-Backed Reformer, Building the Bridge Between Text and Truth

A short story about me...

Like many young BAMS graduates, I began my journey as a clinical consultant doing the usual rounds, prescribing the usual treatments, caught in the routine rhythm of Ayurvedic practice as it exists today. It was meaningful, but mechanical. Something always felt missing...

That shift came the day I noticed how terms like akṣi, netra, and nayana, which we casually equate with “eye” in Sanskrit, carried deeper and distinct meanings in the classical texts of Charaka and Suśruta. What jolted me was how two very different conditions like stambha akṣi (possibly ptosis) and dṛṣṭi stambha (likely fixed pupils, a critical sign) were both being lazily translated as “fixed eye.” One benign. The other life-threatening. That moment changed everything. It showed me how easily clinical nuance is lost in translation and how dangerous that can be for the progress of the science.

I went on to pursue my postgraduation and entered the world of clinical research, hoping to bring more rigour to the way we interpret and apply Ayurvedic knowledge. But alongside that journey, I saw something equally disturbing: the younger generation of Ayurvedic doctors constantly ridiculed or dismissed by parts of the allopathic establishment. Not challenged, but bullied. Mocked. And often made to doubt their own path.

That’s when I knew my role wasn’t just to be a doctor... it was to be a bridge, a voice, and a shield. To defend Ayurveda, not through blind allegiance, but through sharper thinking, better translations, stronger evidence, and public awareness. I began digging deep into the classical texts, re-reading them, this time with more lateral thinking. And I started speaking up online, in classrooms, on panels , wherever misrepresentation needed correction.

This isn’t just a career anymore. It’s a responsibility.