The practice came from his father.
Dr. Y. Krishnaiah, BNYS · Naturopathy · Kothapet and Hayathnagar
Roots
Where it comes from
The herbal side of this practice did not begin with a degree. It began at home.
Dr. Krishna's father worked with Ayurvedic preparations, and the knowledge of which plant does what, and which combinations hold together, was learned in the house long before it was studied anywhere.
The formal training came after. Bachelor of Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences, a five and a half year course at the National Institute of Health Science and Research, New Delhi, qualified September 2020. Naturopathy is what he is trained in and what he practises. The family's herbal knowledge sits alongside it.
The first visit
What the first consultation is actually like
He will ask you very little about your reports to begin with.
What he wants to know is how you live. What you eat and when. Which oils are in your kitchen. How much you move in a day, and what kind of movement it is. How you sleep. How long the problem has been there, and what was happening around the time it started.
Most of a first consultation is that. Your reports matter, but they describe where you are now. The questions are about how you got here.
The approach
Cause, not complaint
Take a knee that has been hurting for two years, with a scan showing the cartilage worn down.
There is medicine that will take the pain away, and it has its place — he will say so himself. But it does not answer the question of why the cartilage wore down. Weight the joint was never built to carry. Years of eating that did not give the body what it needed to maintain itself. A life with very little movement in it, or the wrong kind.
That is the part he works on. The herbal preparation is one piece of a plan that is mostly about what you eat, how you move, and what you stop doing — not because the preparation doesn't matter, but because on its own it is being asked to undo something the rest of your life is still doing.
He looks at everything this way. There are no shortcuts in it.
The timeline
It takes longer than you want it to
This is the part he says early, because it is the part people leave over.
A problem that took years to build does not come apart in a fortnight. Depending on how long it has been there and how far it has gone, expect somewhere between six months and a couple of years of doing this properly — the preparations taken as prescribed, the diet actually changed, the habits actually replaced.
If you want something faster, he will tell you that plainly.
The plants
Where the plants come from
Some of it grows around Hyderabad. He knows where, and goes and gets it — which is what most of these photographs are.
What doesn't grow here is ordered from wherever it does. Some comes from Karnataka. Some from further, depending on the plant.
It is then dried, powdered, and blended into the preparations. The bags on those shelves are those powders, labelled by hand.
The preparations
Made here, one at a time
Nothing is made in a batch of ten thousand and left on a shelf to wait.
A preparation is put together for the person it is for, from the powders in that room, at the proportions their consultation called for. If something needs adjusting a month in, it is adjusted at the source — which is why the follow-up month is part of the ₹500 rather than another visit to pay for.
Credentials
Start with a conversation.
Open daily · Walk-in 5:00 – 9:00 PM · Consultation ₹500, including one month of follow-ups.