Sri Vinayaga Ayurvibe, an Ayurveda hospital in Perumbakkam, Chennai

Sri Vinayaga Ayurvibe is a doctor-led Ayurveda hospital at Nookampalayam, Perumbakkam, Chennai 600131. The distinction from the wellness centres along OMR is not marketing: consultations are with a registered BAMS physician, therapies are prescribed after an assessment rather than chosen from a price list, and medicines are compounded and dispensed here.

Your first visit is a full assessment — pulse and tongue examination, constitution analysis, and a discussion of your medical history, current medication, digestion, sleep and what you actually want to change. Only after that is a plan written.

The stretch along OMR has many places offering Ayurvedic massage. Most have no doctor on the premises, which is the distinction that matters when your complaint is a disc, a thyroid imbalance or a pregnancy rather than a stiff shoulder. A few therapies are genuinely unsafe for some patients — sudation in certain cardiac conditions, several procedures in pregnancy, oleation during an active Amavata flare — and knowing which, and refusing them, is what the doctor is for.

Medicines are compounded in-house from classical formulations with every ingredient named, so another doctor can check them against what you are already taking.

We treat what walks in: long-running back and neck pain, knee arthritis, PCOS and menstrual disorders, postnatal recovery, insomnia and anxiety, migraine, IBS and acidity, sinusitis, hair fall and chronic skin disease. Where a complaint needs a conventional doctor first, we say so.

Therapies are carried out by trained therapists, with female therapists throughout for women’s treatments. The hospital is open every day from 10 AM to 8 PM, and there is free on-site parking.

Sri Vinayaga Ayurvibe — 12/597, Main Road, Nethaji Nagar Main Rd, Nookampalayam, Perumbakkam, Chennai 600131. Phone: +91 81229 39197.