Many people these days rely on traditional medicines rather than going to doctors. Is this a positive or negative development?

In these latter days, more and more people are choosing traditional
medicine
instead
of conventional
treatment
. In my opinion,
this
is a negative development which can lead to subversive consequences,
such
as side effects, lost time and wasted money. One serious problem which can
be arise
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from using traditional
medicine
is that it can lead to negative repercussions for
patients
’ health. In comparison with
conventional
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way of
treatment
, traditional
medicine
has
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not
enough
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reliable and repeatable
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that can
proof
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its safety.
As a result
, those
patients
who believe in traditional healing
practises
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have to take high risks of getting harmful side effects. Another negative consequence of traditional
medicine
should be mentioned. In some cases, the time for successful
treatment
is limited, so when it is spent on traditional curative procedures and remedies with doubtful effectiveness
patients
can
loose
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the opportunity to recover.
For example
, in
Russia
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there is a group of scammers who sell some herbal teas as a cancer
treatment
. Unfortunately, those
patients
who are desperately looking forward to effective cancer curation become the victims of
this
felony. They consume these teas spending their precious time with the hope
for
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healing but it will run to disastrous results.
Finally
, the prices of some healing procedures in traditional
treatment
clinics can be comparable with the costs in high-quality conventional hospitals.
However
, in the
last
case
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the expenses can be covered by
medical
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insurance policy, which has no
such
option for traditional
medicine
. In
this
way,
patients
have to pay an enormous amount of money for ineffective way of therapy and
eventually
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they will find themselves broken and with ruined health.
To sum up
,
although
traditional
medicine
becomes
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quite popular among
patients
, it has caused too many issues to be considered a positive trend.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Cultural heritage
  • Natural remedies
  • Cost-effective
  • Medical skepticism
  • Adverse side effects
  • Pharmaceutical companies
  • Accessibility
  • Rural regions
  • Anecdotal success stories
  • Holistic approach
  • Treat the root cause
  • Conventional medicine
  • Traditional practices
  • Economic factors
  • Trust and belief systems
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