The Advantages and Disadvantages of Alternative Medicine, Resúmenes de Inglés

¡Descarga The Advantages and Disadvantages of Alternative Medicine y más Resúmenes en PDF de Inglés solo en Docsity! ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Alternative medicine is a term that describes medical treatments that are used instead of traditional (mainstream) therapies. More than half of adults in the United States say they use some form of alternative medicine. But exactly what types of therapies are considered alternative? Alternative medicine includes practices such as massage, acupuncture, tai chi, meditation and drinking green tea. Many of these practices have shown through science to be safe and effective against many diseases if they are combined with a healthy lifestyle and an active life. In many countries as USA, where not everyone is able to pay for efficient treatments against many diseases, this is a very feasible and achievable option that only requires a little time of the person involved. Here are some advantages from that type of treatment : Advantage #1: It treats the Actual Cause. One of the best advantages that alternative medicine offers is that it heals the body and is designed to actually treat the cause of the pain or disease that has occurred. By understanding and treating the disease, Chiropractors and other alternative medicine professionals are able to work at the root of the problem. Mainstream medicine, on the other hand, tends to treat the symptom that the disease or pain is causing, not actually treating the cause. Advantage #2: It is an improvement of the Quality of Life. When we use prescription drugs we generally see an improvement in pain, but once the drug goes out of our system the pain returns. When using alternative medicine, there is a drastic improvement in the quality of life a person has. Advantage #3: It is safer. Alternative medicine is a wide spectrum of therapies, and they are almost always considered to be much safer than mainstream medicine. Natural remedies are used to correct the problem. There are no man-made, unnatural substances that you would be using to put in your body. Advantage #4: It does not have bad side effects. When using mainstream medicine you might be able to get rid of your headache, but the side effects might include nausea, hallucinations and risk of stroke in the process. Almost all mainstream medicine has some type