Mudha Mooppan

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Mudha Mooppan was the King of Kurumba tribals in Attappadi, Kerala (India), and was a well known tribal medical paractioner.

In 1994, the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research under UNESCO published a bulletin on Mudha Mooppan. It described him as an encyclopaedia of medicinal plants. He had been the Mooppan (headman) of the Anavai Kurumba hamlet for more than 50 years.

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Malayala Manorama August 2t, 2006. http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/08/27/stories/2002082701500500.htm