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Mumijo was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 07 December 2010 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Shilajit. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.
Why does this article exist?
As written it's nothing but pseudoscience gibberish.
Maybe Shilajit exists, but certainly not as depicted here.
Whole article needs deleting Olddemdike (talk) 15:43, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
because people sell it to make money. Skeptical people will come to Wikipedia to see what it says about it. The people who put this article up were smart enough not to make any medical claims, just make it sound medical. 142.177.186.156 (talk) 23:40, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The article used to say this stuff had no health benefit, with a good source, but this content was sneaked out. I've restored it. Note currently this article is averaging approx 2,000/hits per day. Bon courage (talk) 08:44, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well there are many studies on Shilajit - like: JAISWAL, A.K.; BHATTACHARYA, S.K.. EFFECTS OF SHILAJIT ON MEMORY, ANXIETY AND BRAIN MONOAMINES IN RATS. Indian Journal of Pharmacology 24(1):p 12-17, Jan–Mar 1992. The signifiance is that it did show some dopamine increase. Maybe a good rewrite is needed to explain the background and scientific findings. Also, In the diabetic rats, shilajit produced a significant reduction in blood glucose levels:
Trivedi, N. A.; Mazumdar, B.; Bhatt, J. D.; Hemavathi, K. G.. Effect of shilajit on blood glucose and lipid profile in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. Indian Journal of Pharmacology 36(6):p 373-376, Nov–Dec 2004. 104.58.86.253 (talk) 16:24, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
what do you say surprises me to the top, and your edit seems to be made only 2 weeks ago 07.08.2024...
here a link to research papers which are public and you will find dozens if not hundreds of them... I also hope you won;t declare them all as not trustworthy... Maybe before claiming anything you should make some research or even try it out on your own!
So it seems there are a lot of true scientific research from very recent years and on the statement you have restored is only one ... which you refer to as " with a good source" :))
Also I would like to bring to your attention this statement from the History section
" The healing effects of shilajit for different diseases is mentioned in the works of Aristotle, Razi, Biruni, Ibn Sina and others.
D'Herbelot, in his 1821 publication, stated that the Persians used the substance called mumiay, or mummy, as a potent cure-all to address broken bones and disease.
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So my common sense says you are obviously in minority even if partly your claims, that the whole Wikipedia entry is made by those who sell this item and just want to make profit, might have some truth in it.
I will edit the health effects section adding the link I just gave to you so people can see the enormous amount of recent research on that topic. Estefan88 (talk) 21:34, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
