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Health, medicine and traditional practice. Chirantan publishes scholarly research on Indian Knowledge Systems, including Ayurveda, Yoga and other traditional health traditions. Nothing published in this journal is medical advice, diagnosis or a treatment recommendation, and it must not be used as a substitute for consultation with a qualified healthcare practitioner. Readers should not act on any practice, formulation or regimen described here without appropriate professional guidance.

Living traditions and communities. Much of what this journal studies is the living knowledge of real communities. Scholarly interpretation of a tradition, text or practice is the author's own and does not speak for any community, lineage, institution or religious body.

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Corrections. Errors of fact, and concerns about published work, are handled under Chirantan's publication-ethics policy - by correction, expression of concern or retraction as the case requires.