Deletion of Rasa shastra

Comment: but I'd say protect to prevent fringe stuff from being readded. The study of this has separate departments at prestigious universities such as the Banaras Hindu University (http://www.imsbhu.nic.in/rasashastra/dep_index.html) and is for what it's worth governed by the Ministry of Health, just like standard allopathic medical education. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3131772/?tool=pubmed This article seems to be usable as a reference -- http://www.jaim.in/editorialboard.asp The Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine appears to have some editorial oversight, but someone with a better understanding of these ought to check it out. The claims made on treatments etc ought to be subject to , but the topic itself is "a historical tradition" and ought to be treated as such. &mdash
Stance: keep
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Comment: I've expanded the article with a brief synopsis of information gleaned from the preview pages in the http://books.google.com/books?id=qo0VPGr0RF4C&pg=PA26&dq=%22Rasa+shastra%22&hl=en&ei=4ctbTp7INo6EtgfukOCYDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=%22Rasa%20shastra%22&f=false Mishra book.  When the methods used are set forth in a matter of fact way, I don't think anybody's going to actually mistake this for anything that relates to Western medicine.  Even if you consider this a |fringe subject (and given the nature of the subject we probably ought to tread lightly before even making that claim) it seems to be a notable part of that practice.  With subjects like this, the issue is not whether they are scientifically verifiable, but whether they veriviably exist.  I'm convinced it does
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Comment: Did not notice the publisher.  On the other hand http://books.google.com/books?id=qo0VPGr0RF4C&pg=PA26&dq=%22Rasa+shastra%22&hl=en&ei=4ctbTp7INo6EtgfukOCYDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=%22Rasa%20shastra%22&f=false this book from CRC Press has an entire chapter on the subject.  I'd add that I don't believe that  really applies to this subject, either, and might be considered an example of Western or scientistic |bias
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