It further divides quacks amongst three basic categories- quacks with no qualification whatsoever, secondly, practitioners of Indian Medicine (Ayurvedic, Sidha, Tibb, Unani), Homeopathy, Naturopathy, commonly called Ayush, who are not qualified to practice modern medicine (allopathy) but are practicing modern medicine, and lastly, practitioners of so-called integrated medicine, alternative system of medicine,
electro-homeopathy, indo-allopathy etc terms which do not exist in any Act.
The group of seven from Coventry have all taken part in a two-year programme designed to give them skills in electro-homeopathy - a form of the treatment which uses just 64 plant-based remedies instead of the thousands usually available.
Electro-homeopathy is so called because of the positive and negative reactions that remedies generate.