OPINION ESSAY

DO YOU THINK THAT ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IS GOOD EFFECTS ON THE PEOPLE?

Whether you agree or not, I believe that alternative medicine gives harmful effects to people who are using. A lot of people saw non-conventional medicine as miracle. They always believed strongly if they use this medicine, they will protect from illness themselves without thinking its side-effects. However; taking doctors’ advise or going to the doctors’ is beter and healtier than using alternative medicine.

Nowadays, if people catch a cold or another illnesses, there are a lot of ways to keep them from getting worse or cleaning them up all together without any kind of medication. They are called ‘ koca-karı ilacı’ in Türkish such as drinking mint-lemon tea if you’re cold or putting beaten bread on the bruised / being hurt place. They are beneficial sometimes, because they are so easily coming over when it is compared with cancer or tumor… etc. A lot of study don’t support this medicine and the people using it. A Norwegion Multicentre Study examined the association between the use of alternative medicine and cancer survival. 515 patients using Standard medical care for cancer were followed for 8 years.22% of these patients used alternative medicine concurrently with their Standard care. The study revealed that death rates were 30% higher in alternative medicine users than in those who didn’t use alternative medicine.

As I said both introductıion and body paragraph, alternative medicine has negative effects on the people using it. If you want to have longer and healtier life, you must give up using alternative medicine and start to prefer to conventional medicine.


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