Itty Achuden: Bridging Tradition and Science Through Botanical Illustration Itty Achuden (forename also spelt as *Ity Achuden *in English, and *Itti Achudem* in Latin), was an Indian herbalist, botanist and physician. He belonged to an Ezhava family in Kerala who practised pre-Ayurvedic systems of traditional medicine. The Kollatt family are natives of Kadakkarappally, a coastal village, north-west of Cherthala town, in Kerala, India. Itty Achudan was the most remarkable Indian figure associated with Hortus Malabaricus, the botanical treatise on the medicinal properties of flora in Malabar (…