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! ! 115 c. Hydropa thy is another type of m edicine, whereby all ailments are cured with water, s ometimes by making the patient drink water an d at other times, by bathing him. The n, the re are many ways to bathe a person, sometimes in t he form of sprinkling water upo n them, a t times soaking a towel in hot or cold water to clean the body and occasionally, giving a full bath. Thus , they treat all ailments with water. d. Another practice involves curing ailments through rays of sunlight. When t he sunlight combines with distinct colors , new sensations and feelings are born. The practitioners of this medicine use red, green, or other colored glass bottles filled with water, and use them as proper medicine. This practice utilizes a variety of methods. Sometimes , they make the patient sit in sunlight to treat his illness. e. One type of medical healing is one in which electricity is applied to treat disease. Different instruments have been develo ped for different ailments. For example, if one has a sore throat, then a specific instrument will be applied to deliver electricity to eliminate the pain. I f it is joint pain , that too will be treated with electricity. This science has developed considerably. f. Homeopathy ( Ilaj bilmisl ) is another branch of m edicine. Homeopaths believe that since birth man has been be set by various illnesses, but he has been taught a remedy which is beneficia l and will cure those diseases. I f a minute dosage of the root of an illness is given, it may c ure the same illness. For example, opi um causes constipation while minute amo unts of the same drug can relieve constipation. They have chemically analyzed the effects of everything. For example , Quinine is the extract from a plant. This plant is also found in Bengal , but people do not know about it. g. Babokali is another form of medicine which argues that the human body is made up of twelve salts. They have chemically analyzed the blood and believe that the treatment should correlate with the disease , and to this end there is a vaccine and a serum. For example, if one