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Alternative medicine or fringe medicine are practices claimed to have the healing effects of medicine but which are disproven, unproven, or impossible to prove, or are excessively harmful in relation to their effect; and where the scientific consensus is that the therapy does not, or can not, work because the known laws of nature are violated by its basic claims; or where it is considered so much worse than conventional treatment that it would be unethical to offer as treatment.

Alternative therapies or diagnoses are not part of medicine or science-based healthcare systems.

Alternative medicine consists of a wide variety of practices, products, and therapies—ranging from those that are biologically plausible but not well tested, to those with known harmful and toxic effects.

Contrary to popular belief, significant expense is paid to test alternative medicine, including over $2.5 billion spent by the United States government.

Almost none show any effect beyond that of false treatment.

Perceived effects of alternative medicine may be caused by placebo; decreased effect of functional treatment (and therefore potentially decreased side effects); and regression toward the mean where improvement that would have occurred anyway is credited to alternative therapies; or any combination of the above.

Alternative treatments are neither the same as experimental medicine, nor traditional medicine — although the latter, when used today may be considered alternative.

An entheogen (/en·the·o·gen/), from Greek, literally meaning "generating the divine within", is any psychoactive substance that induces a spiritual experience and is aimed at spiritual development.

This terminology is often chosen to contrast with recreational use of the same drugs.

Plant Teacher is a 2011 novel by Ellen Alderton writing as Caroline Alethia.

It has been recognized by various indie awards including finalist in the International Book Awards, runner up in the Green Book Festival, honorable mention in the Hollywood Book Festival, honorable mention in the Paris Book Festival, and honorable mention in the Halloween Book Festival.

It was a winner of the best travel/essay fiction category in the 2012 Global Ebook Awards.

A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical, or psychotropic is a chemical substance that changes brain function and results in alterations in perception, mood, or consciousness.

These substances may be used recreationally (either legally or illegally, depending on the drug and the jurisdiction of the user), to purposefully alter one's consciousness, or, as entheogens, for ritual, spiritual, or shamanic purposes, as a tool for studying or augmenting the mind.

Some categories of psychoactive drugs, which have medical therapeutic value, are prescribed by medical doctors and other health care professionals.

Examples include anesthetics, analgesics, hormonal preparations, anticonvulsant and antiparkinsonian drugs or drugs used for the treatment of neuro-psychiatric disorders, as hypnotic drugs, anxiolytic and some stimulant medications used in ADHD and some sleep disorders.

There are also some psychoactive substances used in the detoxification and rehabilitation programs for psychoactive drug users.

Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.

It has been defined variously in terms of sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood or soul, the fact that there is something "that it is like" to "have" or "be" it, and the executive control system of the mind, or the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.

In contemporary philosophy its definition is often hinted at via the logical possibility of its absence, the philosophical zombie, which is defined as a being whose behavior and function are identical to one's own yet there is "no-one in there" experiencing it.