Question

Napisz wady i zalety medycyny alternatywnej oraz na czym polega i do czego służy itp --- nie zapomnij dać tego w kategorii zadań po angielsku xD
Jeśli komuś to pomoże to pomocna jest książka 'Inspiration4' poziom intermediate

Answer 1

The alternative medicine is becoming more and more popular. Every day and everywhere we can hear practitioners encouraging us to aromatherapy, homeopathy and acupuncture or to herbal medicine. They say that they would cure us from all kind of illnesses. But what are the real benefits and drawbacks of alternative medicine?

First of all, alternative medicine comparing with conventional medicine is definitely more pleasant. For example, during the aromatherapy the patient is lying in a comfortable position and breathing in aroma smells, which influence to his health. Secondly alternative medicine has a holistic approach to the patients. It treats them as an integrated system of body and mind and doesn’t concentrate only on one of these two elements. What is more, it depends a lot of self-treatment, which means that a patient’s faith has a big impact of effectiveness of treatment.

On the other hand alternative medicine can be very expensive. Sometimes it needs rare herbals, for example in herbal therapy, which are not cheap and easily available. Furthermore there are lack of scientific research and hard facts connected with alternative methods. We don’t know exactly what side effects of alternative treating are. Another problem is that a practitioner can be an ordinary swindler, who wants only our money. It is very dangerous mainly for old people.

To sum up, although there are some positive aspects of alternative medicine I think that conventional medicine is still much more reliable and proven way of treating people. However I believe that alternative medicine can be effective, but only with combination of conventional methods.