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Vexed Indian alchemist seeks patent in Australia for medicinal product

A Roorkee-based retired bureaucrat is going to Australia on a mission to take expert assistance for filing a patent for solidification of liquid mercury and manufacture of a medicinal product that could cure several inveterate diseases.

The alchemist, B S Kashyap, took this step as his efforts to earn recognition by the Indian government did not prove fruitful over the years. He is being assisted by an India-born research scholar Lily Bhavna Kauler, who is working on tribal projects in Western Australia.

The two campaigners told a media conference in New Delhi today that the Chemistry Centre at Perth in Western Australia would conduct tests on solid mercury and mercurious ash (rasayan) he had prepared as part of preparation for filing the patents.

Nyooljar Corporation, an aboriginal organisation with which Kauler was associated with, had invited 61-year-old Kashyap to Australia to discuss the work.

The Bombay-based ''International Society for Unity and Peace Awareness through Art'', which is championing the cause of the alchemist, has meanwhile planned to file a public intererst petition in the Supreme Court challenging what it called an ''unsafe methodology'' in preparation of mercury ash (kajri) used in medicines in combination with sulphur.

It would take at least four months for removing the poisonous properties and impurities in mercury through use of some herbs before making the liquid into solid and then ash with rich medicinal properties to cure cancer, psoriasis, asthma, leucoderma, leprosy and several other disorders, they said.

UNI

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