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Table 1 Continued  Based on the anticonvulsant                Preparatio
Herbal remedies    properties of some plant products
                                                              The scien
Homeopathy                                                    properties
                                                              the develo
Meditation                                                    treatments

                   Based on the belief in a ‘law of           Illnesses a
                   similars’ or ‘let like be cured by like’.  preparatio
                   If a substance in large doses produces     will be ch
                   specific symptoms, the same                individual
                   substance will, in extremely small         homeopat
                   doses, cure them. In direct contrast to    patient’s m
                   modern medicines, homeopaths               result diff
                   believe that the more dilute a             condition
                   substance is, the more potent it will be   remedies

                   Meditation is a form of contemplation      The attent
                   that manipulates attention. Most           during me
                   techniques require complete stillness      EEG chan
                   and an exclusive mental focus on one       brain wav
                   thing, such as a single featureless        people in
                   object, the act of breathing, or the       patterns re
                   repetition of a single word, as in the     the medita
                   recitation of a mantra. This eventually    people wh
                   results in a ‘loss of active attention’,
                   or a state of inattention.
                   This state is sometimes called
                   ‘superconsciousness’
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