Ayurveda Researcher On US Alternative Medicine Body

September 5, 2004

NEW YORK, USA, April 9, 2004: India's traditional system of medicine,

ayurveda, has been for the first time included in an advisory body to the

US National Institutes of health (NIH) with the appointment of researcher

Bala V.Manyam. Manyam, a director of Plummer Movement Disorder Center, in

the Neurology Department at the Scott & White Clinic in Temple, Texas, has

been appointed to the National Advisory Council for Complementary and

Alternative Medicine (NACCAM) of the NIH. The 12-member NACCAM, advises NIH

on the applications for research grants and includes leading experts in the

field of alternative medicine.

Manyam is an allopathic doctor with deep interest in ayurveda. He found

that ayurvedic truths discovered by the ancient sages still hold today. He

has been struggling to submit those truths to the rigors of modern

scientific research. He mentioned how he as a medical student in 1960s came

across reference in ayurvedic texts about kunch seed, or guruganji in

kannada, as effective birth control agents. In the early 60s when India was

exercised over its overpopulation problem, He presented his leads but he

was discouraged by his professor. Manyam's investigations also contributed

to advances in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Manyam also mentioned

in a paper presented at the National Parkinson Foundation: "Physicians in

ancient India first used macuna seeda in the treatment of Parkinson's

disease called kampavata in ancient India over 4,500 years ago. Despite the

fact that Mucuna was used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease in

ancient times, it is important today to establish that the drug does not

have adverse effects on various vital organs," he said. Manyam's role at

NACCAM will be to give his evaluation of proposals for research in the

field of ayurveda.

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