Ayurveda keeps you mentally sound

Hyderabad: With only 4,500 psychiatrists from the allopathic stream to treat patients, the problem before introducing the Mental Health Care Bill 2013 is the lack of enough resources to deal with the problems of mental illness in the country.

This is the moot question before the planners, as they opt to take strident steps towards mental health care and protection, against cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. To tackle these problems, the Ayurveda Medicine Manufacturers’ Organisation of India has approached the Parliamentary Committee on Mental Health to include Ayurveda treatment system in the Mental Health Care Bill.

The contention of the organisation is that the 5,000-year-old Ayurveda healing system has single dose drugs and also a separate line of treatment for various existing mental health problems like anxiety, depression, insomnia, neurosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, delusion and many others.

Professor Satya Prasad of Ayurveda College said, “The drugs prescribed in Ayurveda have basic features to cure the disease, to strengthen the immune system and also to rejuvenate those tissues or cells that have been damaged during curing the disease. It does three works in one go.

We hope that the Government considers the recommendation as it will help people who will confidently walk into clinics. Presently, after the patient gets tired of allopathic treatment they opt for Ayurveda. In that case, the treatment is long and also very time-consuming as there are already too many toxins present in the body.”

Doctors claim Ayurveda is the first and foremost medical science that showed the existence of psychosomatic disorders (disease affecting both mind and body) and the system has treatment methodologies for healing such ailments. The concept, healthy mind is necessary for healthy body, was derived from Ayurveda.

The moot point of the doctors is that inclusion will go a long way in bringing the Ayurveda form in the main stream and also allow it to be the patient’s first choice.