Narayanan Mooss was born in a family of traditional ayurvedic physicians of ashtavaidyans (a title conferred upon the family by the Viceroy of India, Lord Reading in 1924) to Devaki Antharjanam and E. T. Neelakandhan Mooss in September 2, 1933. He learned Ayurveda from his father, a well known Ayurvedic physician and Padmashri award recipient, and his uncle, Vayaskara N.S. Mooss.
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2010 for his contribution to the field of medicine specific to Ayurveda. After early schooling by Gurukula system in Ollur, he joined family ayurvedic clinic to assist his father and later worked at Vaidyaratnam Oushadhasala, when his father founded it in 1944. Under the rigorous tutelage of his father, Narayanan Mooss developed into a physician, widely considered to be one of best exponents of traditional ayurveda in India, mastering the eight branches of ayurvedic system of medicine.
He took over the reigns of the family establishment in 1954 and developed it into a group which now comprises an Ayurvedic Medical College, Two Hospitals, 25 depots, 800 retail outlets, a herbal farm, a Nursing College, an Ayurvedic Research Centre, three medicine manufacturing units and an Ayurvedic Museum.
Narayanan Mooss is also a lover of traditional arts of Kerala and Sanskrit literature.
Padmabhushan the Government of India, in 2010. Swadeshi Puraskar, instituted by the Swadeshi Jagaran Foundation for the year 1997 for services to Ayurveda from then Prime Minister of India, A. B. Vajpayee. Akshaya Puraskar in 1988 for contribution to Ayurveda Chikitsak Guru, a title from Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth, Government of India in 1991. Life time Achievement Award in 2006 from Association of Chambers of Commerce Living Legends Award in 2006 from Rotary Club, Thrissur Best Acharya Award in 2010 by Government of Kerala.
