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Traditional medicine, such as acupuncture and herbal remedies, is very popular in some countries. Those who practice traditional medicine claim that it is better than modern medicine in maintaining and improving health. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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It is argued that traditional treatment does patients
more good
Suggestion
better
 than modern
medicine
 does in making
contribution
Suggestion
a contribution
 to positive changes in health. In my point of view, I completely agree with
this
 opinion due to two main reasons
To begin
 with, most people who opt for alternative
medicine
 are choosing these treatments because they are seeking a more reliable approach to solve their health problems. It is true that traditional
medicine
 is extracted from natural resources like herbs or trees so it might be safer and hardly cause side-effects during the therapy.
Moreover
, there are some herbal cures which have been used for hundreds of years and is still
elvolving
work out
evolving
, its
prevelance
the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread
prevalence
provenance
 and practice is growing through the world day by day.
For example
, in ancient time when there were few
advancments
encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something
advancements
advancement
 in
medicine
, people invented and made use of various types of herbal drug to combat diseases.
Therefore
,
this
 kind of treatment has been proved to be reliable and effective, especially in today’s world in which users do not trust big pharmacy companies as a consequence of counterfeit medications
In addition
 to
this
, using oriental
medicine
also
 plays a role in saving a considerable amount of money. As traditional drugs are deprived from organic ingredients which are easy to find and widely available, it helps to put aside a lot of money while modern
medicine
 is made up of many relatively expensive chemical components. What is more, modern treatments have to be tested by various experiments before being made available for consumers to buy which leads to extra expense for checking equiments and make their price much higher In conclusion, I am strongly convinced that the advantages of traditional healing approaches far exceed than those of modern
medicine
 because of two major explanations and personally prefer
this
 kind of treatment
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