SCIENTIFIC STUDIES conducted by a VEDIC ASTROLOGY INSTITUTE in INDIA point to a growing body of evidence to show that using gems and precious stones such as pearls, corals and emeralds in children with Hyperactivity and Attention deficit disorders gives significant and lasting benefit.

At a recently conducted seminar in Varanasi, erudite pundits presented a slew of evidence to show :

* improved scholastic performance in children who had worn an emerald ring on their right middle finger for one year.

* a lengthened attention span in children who had worn a pearl set in silver, on the ring finger of the left hand.

* reduction in aggressive and often aimless, locomotor acitivtiy in children who had worn a pink coral in the ring finger or the index finger of the right hand.

More than 60% children had shown improvement in their behaviour by the end of one year. The gems should be worn for many years, to get sustained results.

This information was conveyed to me by the Temple trustee of the Shri Shantadurga Temple in Goa, which conducts summer classes in Vedic Astrology. He had attended the seminar as a delegate, where he presented a paper on 'The role of the Fifth House Lord in Birth defects' ( in the Horoscopes of Mother and Father ).

Certainly, Vedic Astrology is catching up with modern Science, and can be used as a supplementary tool for understanding and treating many medical disorders!