The journey began in the mid-1970s, when Late Vaidya Chandra Prakash, an Ayurvedic physician in Meerut, made an incidental clinical observation that led to an Ayurvedic protocol for pancreatitis.
From 1997 onwards, his son Vaidya Balendu Prakash systematically documented patients treated through this protocol, building a longitudinal cohort of more than 2,800 patients with hospital-established diagnoses from across India.
The work brought together Ayurvedic knowledge, systematic clinical observation and scientific enquiry, documenting recurrence, hospitalisation, treatment response and long-term disease trajectory. Clinical observations have indicated substantial reductions in recurrent emergency attacks and hospitalisations, with sustained symptom-free periods in a significant proportion of patients.
Vaidya Balendu Prakash envisioned IPCI as the next step: a multidisciplinary scientific platform to critically examine the evidence, address unanswered questions and foster collaboration across disciplines and systems for better long-term care in pancreatitis.
From experience to evidence
Where the Clinical Work Is Done
The longitudinal cohort behind IPCI 2027 is drawn from the pancreatitis programme run at Padaav Speciality Ayurvedic Treatment Centre — the in-patient centre founded by Vaidya Balendu Prakash, and the setting in which the protocol has been administered, observed and documented.
Patients are admitted with hospital-established diagnoses, treated over a structured course, and followed over time. It is that record — recurrence, hospitalisation, treatment response and long-term disease trajectory — that IPCI 2027 brings to the table for independent scientific scrutiny.
The centre is today led by Vaidya Shikha Prakash, Ayurvedic Physician & CEO of Padaav-Speciality Ayurvedic Treatment Centre, continuing both the clinical programme and its documentation.
Padaav Speciality Ayurvedic Treatment Centre
- In-patient Ayurvedic care, with admission and structured length of stay
- Founded by Vaidya Balendu Prakash
- The setting for the documented pancreatitis programme since 1997
- Ongoing clinical documentation and audit of treated patients
The conclave exists to examine this work critically — not to present it as settled.
Padmashri awardee
Vaidya Balendu Prakash
14 March 1959 — 7 August 2026 · Founder & Founding Organising Secretary, IPCI 2027
Our objective is not merely to preserve Ayurveda but to validate, refine and present it to the world through rigorous scientific standards.— Vaidya Balendu Prakash
The next step is collaboration
IPCI 2027 is the platform where this clinical experience meets scientific scrutiny.