The National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) has pledged to start prescribing to mentally ill patients a natural Ayurvedic herbal supplement known as Ayush Manas instead of only prescribing multiple cocktails of psycho active pharmaceutical drugs.  Ayush Manas is a preparation of four natural herbs blended and put into tablet form and has shown to improve and rehabilitate neural cells.  It has also been helpful as a memory enhancement and improves the brain’s overall function.

“Three years of research study, and we have come up with a new formulation called Ayush Manas, which will help improve and restore intellectual functioning of mentally retarded patients” explains the Assistant Director for Ayurveda, Nimhans, Dr. B. Chandrashekar Rao.

Ayurveda medical sciences have always been superior to Western allopathic medical systems in that they can be equally effective but do not come with any particular side effects.  Rao continues, “Unlike the MRI scanning which mentally ill people undergo, this natural medicine, in the form of Rasayana (a kind of rejuvenating medicine), stimulates the surviving capacity without any side effects, and even if it is given in higher doses it will not create much of a problem.”  In the spirit of Ayurvedic science, Ayush Manas will work on treating the body and bringing it back into equilibrium so that it may become healthier, rather than the Western approach of treating the disease.

Unlike traditional pharmaceutical prescriptive, Ayush Manas can be taken as an herbal supplement by healthy individuals, too. “While it helps in restoring the health of the mentally retarded, it also helps in maintaining the health of otherwise healthy people” Rao adds.