Gunaram Khanikar (Assamese: ??????? ?????) was a herbal medicinal expert from Assam, India.
Gunaram Khanikar is one of the most popular and recognized names in the field of herbal medicine in India.
His birthday, March 22, is observed as Medicinal Plants day in Assam, India.
Khanikar has received numerous awards for his innovation in herbal medicine and around 30 books, most of them in Assamese, including one of the most successful of these, Sahaj Labhya Ban Darober Goon.
He has also written around 630 articles for different magazines.
Khanikar was also the head of the Regional Research and Training Center on Indian Traditional Treatment (RRTCITT). Khanikar was conferred with Most Influential Assamese of the Year by a leading satellite news channel of Assam in 2013 and is known to authored the first Herbal Dictionary.