Mudha Mooppan

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.

References

Malayala Manorama August 2t, 2006. [1]