Shimoga: Vaidya Narayana Murthy, known as the medicine man, who cured cancer patients passed away on Wednesday at the age of 80 in Karnataka's Shimoga.
According to sources, he died of a heart attack and was under medication for various ailments, including cancer.
Murthy, a resident of Sagara Taluk's Narasipur, used to give herbal medicines to thousands of patients ailing from different diseases like heart, kidney, and different kinds of cancer.