Poonthottam Ayurvedasram was founded by Vaidya.P.M.S.Raveendranath . Raveendranath was born in July 1965 in a Namboothiri family of central Kerala. He was initiated into Ayurveda by his father who is a renowned Sanskrit teacher belonging to a family of ardent believers of Ayurveda. Raveendranath had Sanskrit education from his early childhood. In the year 1980, he started his Ayurvedic studies at the Ayurveda College, Pathanjalipuri in Coimbatore, Tamil nadu, which adopted a "Gurukula" (A method in which the disciple stays with the teacher and learns from him) method of imparting education. This was a formal graduate course in Ayurveda with duration of about 8 years. Apart from Ayurveda, the students were taught other related areas like Yoga, Kalari and Indian philosophy (Darsanas). Special emphasis was also given on learning Sanskrit. With his brilliance and diligence, Raveendranath gained a strong foothold in Ayurveda and other related disciplines.

During the later part of his education, for acquiring skills for clinical practice, Raveendranath moved to his guru Sri.Vaidyamatham Valiya Narayanan Namboothiri, who was a highly reputed physician of Kerala belonging to the Ashta Vaidya tradition. People belonging to Vaidyamatham family are popularly known as Shalavaidyas (physicians who are entitled to enter the sacrifice/ritual premises) in Kerala. Vaidyamatham family does upasana (worship) of Dakshinamoorthy. Sri. Vaidyamatham Valiya Narayanan Namboothiri was born in 1910 and had a long career of Ayurvedic practice till 1988. He was known as "Vaidyashastra Mahodadhi" a title given to him by the chief of Kanchi Kamakoti math of Sankaracharya, Sri Sri Chandrasekhara Saraswati Swamigal. Raveendranath stayed with his guru for three years and learned practical skills of Ashta vaidya and particularly Vaidyamatham tradition.

After his guru's demise, Raveendranath started the centre "Poonthottam Ayurvedasram" named after his family in the year 1989. His aim was to develop a centre for Ayurvedic treatment procedures as he strongly believed that treatment methods like Sodhana (elimination) and Rasayana (rejuvenation) did not get enough attention and could not be done in the out patient clinics or at home. Raveendranath's intention was to create a complete centre, which is self-reliant for practice, research and training in Ayurveda. His steady and sustained efforts in this direction finally bore fruit. Through establishment of this centre, he proved that dedication and hard work could benefit any sincere aspiration.

" It is not our objective to establish a centre of exception. This has to be a model centre, which any Ayurvedic graduate can establish with near zero capital. We are giving lot of importance to the training of youngsters. It is very vital because we need to replicate this concept so as to create a generation of Vaidyas who will not be completely dependent on pharmaceutical industry. We need to have a decentralized health culture and that is the way Ayurveda could be best practiced. If the centre grows beyond a limit, the quality will suffer".