Alternative therapies

Good afternoon My name is Nuria Murillo and today I will be going to speak about
alternative therapies. I will divide this presentation in three parts. Firstly, I will
compare traditional therapies with alternative in chronic conditions. Next , I will
continue speaking about the benefits and drawbacks of this type of medicine, And
finally, I am going to compare the cost of alternative therapies and conventional
medicine-

Nowadays , the researches in the field of medicine have obtain great achievements,
however , diseases like cancer or aids don´t have a definitive cure yet. For that reason,
a lot of people look for another type of medicine besides traditional therapies.

Reflexology, acupuncture or homeopathy are some of the most common alternative

therapies. Patients with chronic diseases try to experiment with all types of methods
that they can find . To get a miracle cure or only to alleviate their pain. The result of
these therapies depend on the patient. If he believes that this method is better than
the traditional, the placebo effect will work, people with chronic condition don´t have
anything to loose and try to prove everything that they find. Reflexology and
acupuncture can calm some types of pain but nobody has demonstrated that they can
cure diseases. Homeopathy is the medicine based on plants and natural remedies , and
it worked with our ancestors. Alternative therapies are based in the medicine of the
ancient civilizations like Chinese and Egyptian . The traditional therapy has advanced a
lot with the new technologies then it is logical to think that this type will be better than
an outdated medicine.

The main benefit of the alternative option is that is based in natural elements less
aggressive than some drugs , another advantage it is that there isn´t waiting list
because it is private and this type of medicines can use to prevent disease like flu or
some types of allergies , however traditional medicines like antibiotics can be only
used when you have a viral illness but the main drawback is that the healing power of
natural medicines is slower. And sometimes more expensive than the others

In the most cases, alternative medicine is expensive than traditional, since this type of
therapy isn´t offered by the national health system. Them, you have to pay apart when
you want to be treated with this type of medicine. For instance if you use acupuncture
medicine you need to go several times and each time costs between 50-100 euros.
And with reflexology happens the same.The treatments and the specialists in
traditional medicine are very expensive too but we are covered with the national
health system.

In conclusion, in my point of view I think that the traditional medicine is able to cure
more efficiency than alternative therapies, because thanks to the new technologies
and the large advances in the field of science the treatments have improved a lot and
now the percentage of disease by cancer has decreased drastically in the last few
years. The alternative therapies can be used as a palliative method but never as a
substitutive of traditional medicines like chemotherapy or radiotherapy in cancer
cases.