TOPIC:‘Currently there is a trend towards the use of alternative form of medicin

e. However, at best these methods are ineffective, and at worst they may be dang
erous’. To what extent do you agree with this statement?
ESSAY:There are a lot of forms of medicine which are alternative, complementary,
conventional etc. In my opinion, nowadays many people prefer to use natural me
dicine to the conventional medicine.
There are a lot of alternative methods which can help people. For instance, acup
uncture, reflexology, iridology, chiropractic manipulation and etc. In my opinio
n, before more people relied on natural medicine, more than on conventional medi
cine, because that time there were few doctors who could help sick people. There
fore, that time a lot of people relied on alternative doctors. However, there ar
e also countries where doctors study alternative medicine plus to conventional m
edicine, for example in China.
There are some advantages of using alternate medicine. Firstly, it’s beneficial,
because you won’t take a lot of pills. Secondly, sometimes it helps faster than
pills. For instance, you have headache. If you take a pill it will help you app
roximately in40 minutes but if you take herbal drink it will help you approxim
ately in 15 minutes. Thirdly, when somebody takes pills all the time, he will a
ccustomed to them and they won’t help him anymore. But, in my opinion, alternati
ve medicine will help you always.
However, there are also disadvantages of using alternative medicine. First of al
l, it isn’t always effective. Secondly, if somebody, who needs an operation (but
he doesn’t know about it), will go to alternative doctors and then it may be to
o late to turn to conventional doctors. In addition alternative medicine is very
dangerous, because some alternative doctors don’t have enough knowledge about m
edicine.
In conclusion, I want to say that alternative medicine isn’t always effective. B
ut sometimes it’s effective if we have for example, headache, stomachache and et
c.