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Contents 1 Invitation to CfD Category:Pseudoskeptic Target Discussion 2 Suggestion for new entry 3 Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Alternative medicine 4 Exclude Cochrane and similar reviews from Chiropractic? 5 Reassessment? 6 adding "Zen Shiatsu Tucson" link 7 review of the shiatsu article 8 Help Request 9 Wang Zi-Ping 10 Soul 11 Category:Alternatve medical systems 12 Glossary of alternative medicine 13 RfC: Mass removal of "Category:Alternative medicine" from most articles 14 New list 15 Oxygen bar - request for other views 16 State of WikiProject on Alternative Medicine 17 Sheethali Chikithsa 18 Coordinators' working group 19 Article alerts 20 Scope of alternative medicine 21 CfD nomination of Category:Homeopathic remedies 22 new page: Medicinal clay (request for comments) 23 GA Sweeps invitation 24 Deletions in Medicinal clay 25 Electrical Pollution (Looking to collaborate) 26 Assessment request 27 Myers' cocktail and cocktail therapy 28 Bonghan theory 29 Color light acupuncture 30 new article: Vitamin D and influenza‎ 31 Magnet Therapy (Request for Review & Comments) 32 meaning of rasa

[edit] Invitation to CfD Category:Pseudoskeptic Target Discussion

Due to its relation to this project within WP, members might have an interest in this discussion.-- self-ref (nagasiva yronwode) (talk) 19:31, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion for new entry

Hi there: I'm a new user with a suggestion to have a Wikipedia entry for Stott Pilates. (Disclosure: I am employed by Stott Pilates.) I have taken the liberty of drafting an article on my user page but didn't want to post publicly due to conflict of interest. Anybody agree that this warrants an article? How can I help? Kalliope1 (talk) 21:27, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Alternative medicine

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:43, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Exclude Cochrane and similar reviews from Chiropractic?

It's been suggested to exclude Cochrane Collaboration and similar reviews from Chiropractic on WP:OR grounds. Comments are requested at Talk:Chiropractic #Request for Comment: Excluding treatment reviews. Eubulides (talk) 06:57, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reassessment?

I was just looking for a place to request a reassessment of an article which has undergone major changes since it was rated. Bates method is the article I want to request that for, since the B-Class rating is about a year old. PSWG1920 (talk) 18:23, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] adding "Zen Shiatsu Tucson" link

This is a request to add our informational/bulletin board-style site for zen shiatsu to your external links. My teaching partner and I teach zen shiatsu at three different schools in Tucson throughout the year. One is a career training program at Asian Institute of Medical Studies, one is a venue for continuing education credit and public classes, and the third is foundational training in an established massage therapy program. Our site is http://www.zenshiatsutucson.org Thank you for your consideration, sincerely. Kristin Schaefer 68.230.53.231 (talk) 04:53, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Please read WP:SPAM and WP:LINKFARM. As a policy, Wikipedia only includes external links which meet a specific criteria. -- Levine2112 ^discuss 08:47, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] review of the shiatsu article

Hi, I have done some serious revision of the shiatsu article. I have tidied up the introduction, adjusted the Namikoshi bias and added a more global view, added more explanatory notes on diagnosis, made reference to a major europe wide shiatsu study of shiatsu and mentioned the opposition to shiatsu from health authorities. It's worth looking at again and perhaps removing the controversial tag that welcomes the reader now.

85.56.60.158 (talk) 15:18, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help Request

There is, what I believe, a blatant skepto-attack on Donna Eden. The article is being put up for deletion a second time. Legitimate sources have been removed (which I put back). The motivation seems clearly that there is a set of people who think energy medicine is junk and thus all things related are not noteworthy. If you have an interest, I would like to direct you to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donna Eden 2.

P.S. Is this a reasonable use of this page? I'm not sure. If not, let me know what alternative approach to take. --Mbilitatu (talk) 17:30, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

You should be careful that you do not violate WP:CANVASS. I am of the opinion that you are not violating that particular set of rules with this post, but always keep it in mind when you are trying to gain visibility for projects/ideas you want to see happen at Wikipedia. ScienceApologist (talk) 20:33, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wang Zi-Ping

Article claims he had a significant role in "systematization of Traditional Chinese Medicine" if someone could clarify it would be appreciated, as my knowledge of this area is low. --Nate1481 09:21, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Soul

The Alternative medicine WikiProject tag was recently added to this article's talk page, but I don't see how it is within the scope of the WikiProject on Alternative Medicine. Any explanation? --WikiSlasher (talk) 00:07, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Probably should ask the editor, Sticky_Parkin who did the addition --Sultec (talk) 01:09, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Somebody had already put it in the category, I am just adding the banner and rating to articles in the categories. Presumably the concept of soul someone felt to be important in alternative medicine as otherwise practitioners would have no problem with 'normal' medicine.:) One of their beliefs is sometimes that the person has an essence and normal medicine doesn't address diseases of thhe person's soul. The article doesn't much address the alt.med aspect at the moment but that doesn't mean that isn't possible or the concept isn't important in alt med with WP:RS on the subject discussing it. Anyway, don't ask me lol I'm just adding the classes or banners in accordance with what other people had put in the category.:) Sticky Parkin 22:39, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

I think Soul is the crucial issue here. Modern medicine is 'Modern' because a priori it denies the existence of anything other than the body. The cause of illness is therefore in the body - DNA, whatever. Although alternative medicine includes the vitamins and minerals brigade and such physical therapies as osteopathy, many of the varied approaches include some kind of perspective that there is something more than the visible body, whether in terms of shamanic approaches that target the soul directly, or traditional systems like chinese or greek medicine that look at the energetic systems of the body, which constitute an intermediary between the soul and the physical matter that we see. Hippocratic medicine is, according to Edward Tick (The practice of Greek Dream Healing), only the external purification that was undergone by people preparing themselves for the real healing that was provided in a dream. Aniksker (talk) 20:32, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Alternatve medical systems

A user wants to rename Category:Alternative medical systems to Category:Whole medical systems as he says that is the NCCAM or something name for it. I would appreciate your opinion on the category's talk page or something, but I don't link to them or whatever page I'm on ends up in them lol, but you can put them in the search bar to find them. Sticky Parkin 22:39, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Glossary of alternative medicine

This article is being considered for deletion, just thought I'd let you know in case you want to give your opinions. Sticky Parkin 18:54, 8 November 2008 (UTC) Why is the Glossary of alternative medicine being considered for deletion? As a user of such medicine as a patient, I think there should be a glossary of alternative medicine in Wikipedia. Alternative medicine is also called complementary medicine so many practitioners refer patients to Western, allopathic medicine if they feel the patient needs it. Therefore complementary medicine is not alternative to Western, allopathic medicine.River Running (talk) 02:18, 4 November 2009 (UTC) Do excuse me Sticky, after reading further I support your "mass deletion".River Running (talk) 02:25, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] RfC: Mass removal of "Category:Alternative medicine" from most articles

I have started an RfC: RfC: Mass removal of "Category:Alternative medicine" from most articles. Please comment on this important subject. -- Fyslee / talk 16:41, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm replying with this to everywhere Fyslee has put this request, though you are of course welcome to comment on what he's created. I need to write where he has put this because the title of this thing, started without Fyslee bothering to talk to me about it at all on my talk page, is inaccurate because as I would have told him if he asked, all I'm doing is moving things into the subcategories, (where they should be) which are still in the category. The reason I'm doing this is because at the top of the page it says (the bolding is the page's, not mine, and it's also in a red box This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should list very few, if any, article pages directly and should mainly contain subcategories. So I did what it said. Controversial and shocking "mass deletion" eh?:):):):):) Sticky Parkin 14:27, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Some editors might find this entry rather disturbing. Actually, there is really nothing new about it. This has been a requirement for years. They are simply trying to simplify the organization of this upper level category. In other words, articles will be moved out of Category:Alternative medicine into hopefully the most appropriate sub-category of Alternative medicine.

This task is really more for those editors concerned about maintaining the proper structure of categories on Wikipedia than it is a major responsibility of this particular WikiProject. -- John Gohde (talk) 00:51, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] New list

Announcing a new list:

• List of alternative medicine subjects

-- Fyslee / talk 08:13, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Voicing my opinion, absolutely the last thing that this project should be doing is creating a new list that directly recreates the Index of topics in alternative medicine which was VfD back in Feb 2005. There is a reason why some things in Wikipedia survive, while others don't over very long periods of time. I am confident that the above list will eventually be deleted.

A lot of editors on Wikipedia are in fact interested in Glossaries. In no way is a master list a glossary. -- John Gohde (talk) 17:19, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Your glossary exists. This is not in competition with it. Relax. -- Fyslee (talk) 03:10, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I have added the new list to our list of Core Project Articles. All of our WikiProject's lists are important right up until they are deleted/redirected. Over the years, a couple of these lists were deleted. But, during my recent absence both previously deleted lists have been restored, one way or the other. -- John Gohde (talk) 17:29, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Oxygen bar - request for other views

Oxygen bar, an article within the scope of your project has been completely re-written as an advert (in my opinion). I have reverted once, but User:Oxygeninc has now reverted back to their promotional version. I have explained my views on the talk page and requested discussion, but this SPA has not left a single comment, nor edit summary. Any third-party view on the relative merits of the two versions would be appreciated. Thanks --RexxS (talk) 23:32, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] State of WikiProject on Alternative Medicine

While slightly battered, the WikiProject on Alternative Medicine is currently more active, successful, and accepted than it has ever been before; in the true spirit of how Wikipedia is supposed to function.

The generally accepted Wikipedia scorecard of success is shown on the chart to the right of this comment. Close to 1,000 articles have been tagged as being related to the topic of alternative medicine. And, there is also all those articles that have been tagged with an alternative medicine related category.

Over the years we have lost a number of articles and project sub-pages. But the two key lists that were once deleted, have been restored one way or the other by popular demand. Our original project scope has once again been restored to where it was at the start of 2005.

I would have to say that the core original ideas of this WikiProject have been vindicated over the test of time. While the layouts, design, color, vocabulary, and techniques have somewhat changed, Wikipedians have implemented ALL of our original core ideas.

• Major CAM related articles have a box on them that is bigger than ever.
• CAM related talk pages have our tag on them.
• A type of rating is being displayed on our talk page tags.
• The value of lists has withstood the test of time.

-- John Gohde (talk) 18:11, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Sheethali Chikithsa

I'm unsure if this is OR / vanity or is properly notable. I thought you chaps might be best placed to help. I'll also drop a line at WT:INDIA --Dweller (talk) 14:24, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Coordinators' working group

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[edit] Article alerts

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[edit] Scope of alternative medicine

An Alternative Medicine wikiproject banner was added to "Rejuvenation Research". I think this is incorrect. Agreed? --Green06 (talk) 00:54, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Homeopathic remedies

Category:Homeopathic remedies has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cgingold (talk) 11:54, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

I was reading the article on dietary fiber and I was wondering if anyone knows any ratios regarding fiber intake and nutrient absorbtion avoidance of carbs, fats etc. ie. one gram of soluble fiber will help you avoid burning ?? grams of carbs and fats. Im sure there is not easy answer, I'm wondering it there are any "rules of thumb" out there. Rambo300 (talk) 12:57, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Hey to you all! This is a plain question coming from a plain person. Questions being: Are you saiding that oil pulling does not work?(173.65.202.21 (talk) 18:26, 7 May 2009 (UTC))

[edit] new page: Medicinal clay (request for comments)

Dear friends,

I've been interested in medicinal clays for some time, and was surprised that Wikipedia has no page on the subject. On further investigation, I found that quite a lot of relevant info is scattered around on various Wiki pages, but it's not all that easy to track down. Also, the history of using Medicinal clay is very extensive, and there's lots of info on the Net, but this was not reflected in Wikipedia.

So now I've done this new article, and put it up on my own sub-page for starters,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dyuku/Medicinal_clay

It's quite long, and I believe all the info is pretty solid. Any comments? Is my article yet ready to move into the main Wikipedia?

All the best, Dyuku (talk) 22:09, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

The style of the article looks very well done. The article is fully developed. You have included a number of references. I would just go ahead and create the article. -- John Gohde (talk) 22:25, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm glad you liked my article, John! Actually, this is the first article that I've created from scratch, so I wasn't sure if I did everything correctly. I'm still ironing out some parts, so I'll upload it shortly. There's a lot of material in this area, and it's taking me longer than I thought. I even found some good photos! :)

All the best, Dyuku (talk) 21:09, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

The article is now created: Medicinal clay. -- Dyuku (talk) 16:09, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] GA Sweeps invitation

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[edit] Deletions in Medicinal clay

Dear friends,

Recently, User:MastCell has been deleting material in the article Medicinal clay. Among the items deleted was the whole section about how clay is prepared for use. This is the edit in question,

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Medicinal_clay&diff=294470245&oldid=294470069

That section had been marked as 'unreferenced' for about a couple of days previous.

Now, my question is what to do about this sort of editing. Does anyone really believe that the section "Preparation of clay" is inappropriate in an article about Medicinal clay?

I understand that more references may be necessary for that section (there was actually one embedded reference there already), but why the need to remove the whole section? Shouldn't more time be given to supply the refs?

There was nothing in that section that was controversial in any way. These were simple factual statements summarising what any reference book will say on the subject. The material was not biased in any way.

So I'm asking for advice on how to proceed in such a situation where an editor does not seem to be acting in a constructive manner (i.e. not interested in improving the article).

Thanks in advance. -- Dyuku (talk) 21:15, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Seems the first step would be to simply ask MastCell - a very reasonable editor. Why not try that? Vsmith (talk) 00:34, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Do you really believe that the section "Preparation of clay" is inappropriate in an article about Medicinal clay? Dyuku (talk) 15:33, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

The original editor of any article on Wikipedia does not own the article. Editing by other editors is to be expected. If references is what they want then I suggest that you try adding more references to the article. Locate the references, re-add the deleted material along with valid references and see what happens.

Personally, I cannot say I am in favor of the use of Medicinal clay. Had a very negative experience with a dirt eater outside of Wikipedia. I have never used Medicinal clay and probably never will.

Here again, you should expect all kinds of changes to be made to the article. One definitely has to support your articles, with bigger articles that obviously cover more ground are going to require more references than smaller ones.

Further articles on alternative medicine are supposed to be neutral. So you really will never be allowed to promote the use of Medicinal clay in an article about Medicinal clay. In addition, some editors seem to think that an article should go on forever. Remember that articles in Wikipedia are not supposed to be the size of a booklet. Keep your articles short, on topic, and to the point. -- John Gohde (talk) 09:03, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply, John. Yes, I'll soon get the necessary references and try to re-add some material. I agree that the article came out quite long, but there's a lot more material that I've omitted. There is a lot of material on the subject out there!

I'll never think of promoting the use of anything on Wikipedia. Why should I want to do this, in any case? All this is simply to bring together relevant information that is fully verified. Of course, I'm generally in favour of using natural remedies that have stood the test of time -- just like lots of other folks here may prefer the products of mainstream Big Pharma that have plenty of harsh side-effects, and often have never really been tested independently, or long enough... Different strokes for different folks, like they say... But none of this should interfere with the objective of producing neutral material for articles. Objectivity must be the goal, no doubt, regardless of our personal preferences. Best wishes. Dyuku (talk) 04:42, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Electrical Pollution (Looking to collaborate)

After not having much success with a lot of editors that would rather deny everything then give it a chance, I stumbled upon this wikiproject. Electrical pollution and electrical hypersensitivity are topics of alternative medicine that have been readily denied (Like all alternative medicine) by the "mainstream scientific community". I am looking to make a page for electrical pollution explaining the causes, symptoms, and treatments for it, as well as rebuking the common myths that popular science throws on it. Are there any editors in this project that have an understanding of these concepts and want to help collaborate a notable and well sourced article on this (I have made a minor minor start on it over on my user page (Please do not make judgements based on this. It it 10 minutes worth of work for what will be a much larger article))?

PS: I am not here to debate the existence of electrical pollution of to convince you why you should believe in it. -- Floydian ^τ _γ 04:56, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

The way you collaborate on Wikipedia is to post articles. The number one problem for all article writers is coming up with a good name for it. Right now, I would say that you need to find a better name. What you really got is only a stub. So, I would try posting it to Glossary of alternative medicine to see how the community would respond to it. -- John Gohde (talk) 01:29, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment request

I started the article Zanthoxylum americanum and assessed it up to start-class. I think it should be higher than that, but will not assess higher myself. Could someone please assess it? I'd also appreciate feedback on the talkpage there as to what improvements would be needed to bring it to GA-level. Thanks, LadyofShalott 16:59, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Most articles in Wikipedia fall under more than one project. Botany and Category:Medicinal plants considerations would have to be the primary considerations for articles of this nature. -- John Gohde (talk) 01:36, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Myers' cocktail and cocktail therapy

So I was google'ing cocktail therapy and I found this Myers' cocktail page on wikipedia. Does anyone know how does it related to the cocktail therapy that supposedly interfere HIV's reproduction ability? Because I would have expect that there's a wikipedia page about the "real" cocktail therapy, but not Myers' cocktail. —Preceding unsigned comment added by XyzphineR (talk • contribs) 06:31, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

"Does anyone know how does it relate to the cocktail therapy that supposedly interferes [with] HIV's reproduction ability?"

There's no connection to antiretroviral drugs "cocktails" used in AIDS therapy (which have considerable negative side effects). It doesn't seem like Myers' cocktail has any negative side effects. Dyuku (talk) 17:39, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Bonghan theory

FYI, we have an article at Bonghan theory, which if I'm understanding correctly is about a hypothetical physiological system which explains acupuncture. Article is tagged with "This article or section is in the middle of an expansion or major revamping. ... Please consider not tagging with a deletion tag unless the page has not been edited in several days...", so please give editors their several days to work on it, but IMHO we want to keep an eye on this. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 01:06, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Color light acupuncture

A new article Color light acupuncture is being considered for deletion. Could some experts from this project please take a look and advise. Its origins seem to be COI and spam, but it could it make a valid article one day? Derek Andrews (talk) 20:20, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Unlikely to be anything other than a footnote to the main article - and I imagine even that would be resisted. Verbal chat 20:24, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Main article? I was thinking this might be merged with Chromotherapy. Derek Andrews (talk) 10:39, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] new article: Vitamin D and influenza‎

There's a new article, Vitamin D and influenza‎. I tried to develop it a bit, but the author obviously knows what he's doing. Should this be listed as 'Alternative medicine'? Actually, it's almost mainstream medicine nowadays. In any case, it's drugless medicine, so should be relevant. --Dyuku (talk) 03:19, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

YES, definitely. Any use of vitamins to treat and/or prevent disease is alternative medicine. In nature, Vitamin D is usually paired with Vitamin A which has a much bigger effect on preventing Influenza, IMHO - John Gohde (talk) 19:35, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Magnet Therapy (Request for Review & Comments)

The Magnet Therapy article requires a major overhaul. This article previously described using magnets as pseudoscience with little scientific backing. In recent years, major research has proven static magnetic fields affect several biological processes, most notably blood microcirculation. This effect results in relief of pain and swelling from recent injury and trauma, and improved wound healing after surgery. Substantial research is accumulating for other physiological and behavioral effects of both static and electromagnetic fields.

I have begun to re-organize this article, and have added substantial references based on this research. Though I'm not a member of this project, (I am new to Wikipedia in general), any constructive input would be greatly appreciated. Spades07 (talk) 03:18, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] meaning of rasa

rasatibakshayatisarvanlohan rasaityabidiyate meaning that which digests all the metals is known as rasa —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.204.70.132 (talk) 07:29, 11 December 2009 (UTC)