Sister Innocent Joseph Ayyankanal, a member of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate, has spent over 40 years promoting Ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine) and other forms of traditional medicine among rural and tribal communities in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu and the Wayanad district of neighbouring Kerala. Ayyankanal has conducted more than 2,000 awareness classes across India in association with the Catholic Health Association of India to promote Ayurveda in rural India. She also trained nuns, priests and other health care workers, who now promote these remedies in their areas. Born into a family of vaidyas (traditional healers), she has combined her knowledge of herbal medicine with her vocation as a nun. Ayyankanal continues her mission even at 78, helping people in need and collaborating with organizations such as Shalom TV to promote traditional medicine. She now resides at the Maryknoll Convent in Kunnalady in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu, where she began her health care journey among tribal people in 1975.
Spanish bishops speak out after leaks of their meeting with Leo XIV
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