Agada Tantra & Vyavahara Ayurveda

Teaching Staff

Agada Tantra is a branch of Ayurveda which deal with identification, diagnosis & treatment of various Visha conditions.
Department is well established with a classroom, departmental library with classical & contemporary books related to the subjects, well equipped laboratory and museum with several specimens of poison, venomous and non venomous snakes and other animals, weapons etc for infusing knowledge to students.

Post-graduation in Agada Tantra was started in the year 2013, with five post-graduation intake per year.
Department works in domains like organ toxicities caused by routine food and medicine, antidotal activity, environmental toxicity, residual and cumulative toxicity etc.

Department has come up with practice like weekly presentation of seminars, attending postmortems and many other which are required for present scenario.
Department also engages itself to different visits to Snake parks, Forensic Science laboratories, State Pollution Control Board, Court visits, Industries, Folklore practitioners, Surveys and many more. These visits help the students to update and understand importance of Agada Tantra in relevance to modern health and lifestyle. With this knowledge, the students are encouraged for practice of Agada Tantra with concepts of Garavisha, Dooshivisha and able to create awareness in the society.

Dean

Dr. Neelambikai Natarajan

Dr. Neelambikai Natarajan has Graduated from Thanjavur Medical College, MD in Physiology from Madras Medical College and MBA in Hospital Administration from Alagappa University.

In her medical service, she worked at Madras Medical College, Madhurai Medical College, Government Medical College Coimbatore, Govt KAP Vishwanathan Medical College, Trichy and in Meenakshi Medical College Kanchipuram.

She was an Ex-Senate member of the MGR University Secretory Ethics Committee. She has completed an advanced course in Medical Education (ACME).