Academic institutions related to traditional medicine in India have contributed to Ayurveda’s international visibility. Ayurveda gained recognition in the Western world as medical scholars, notably Frank John Ninivaggi MD of Yale University School of Medicine, researched and outlined its various postulates in one major textbook suitable to Western academic science.In the United States of America, the NIH NCCAM expends some of its $123 million budget on Ayurvedic medicine research.