The first site with the Mentat is British and the other is Indian. You could order it and see if they will ship it. (Himalaya directly sells in the US and they won't let you order from other sites. I tried to order from the European one and got a message--"Apparently you are not in Europe" or something like that.) Let me know!

Vacha/Sweet flag is available in the US, just not for internal use. A study found a carcinogenic effect of with very high doses of vacha aka sweet flag and their was a paper that argued that it should be a controlled substance. It is an important tonic for the nervous system in Ayurveda.

In Lad's book I mentioned, vacha oil or powder is recommended for nasya (in the nose) for PD. It states that use of vacha stimulates the basal ganglia. No basis is given for this statement but I think it is interesting that a treatment through the nose is used for PD when the olfactory bulb may be one of the first areas affected in the disease.

Kim