Nowadays, a growing number of people with health problems are trying alternative medicines and treatments instead of visiting their usual doctor. Do you think this is a positive or a negative development?

At present, alternative

medicines

and

treatments

have become more popular than they were.

In addition

, people can access more sources of information and some of them believe that visiting doctors in a hospital is not the best way to recover from their illness.

Also

, some alternative

treatments

are cheaper than the normal ones.

This

essay will elaborate on the reasons why I think

this

is a negative development.

To begin

with, there are

treatments

which are developed from local people’s beliefs.

Furthermore

, there

are

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no scientific evidence supporting the

treatments

.

This

is dangerous for patients and there might be negative effects on their bodies.

For example

, some

medicines

have not been verified and approved by the government. If the patients take those drugs for years, drugs will accumulate in their bodies.

Consequently

, the patients will have cancers or other

diseases

in the future.

Moreover

, there are many advanced devices in the hospital which can help doctors accurately diagnose patient’s symptoms. Without those tools, the evaluation may go wrong, and

diseases

are not eliminated.

For instance

, heart

diseases

require specific techniques and devices to find the cause of symptoms. It cannot be observed with eyes since blood vessels are small and complex.

To sum up

, alternative

medicines

and

treatments

have many drawbacks. It causes bad effects on the patient’s body if those

medicines

are not tested, and the

diseases

may not be cured

due to

the wrong diagnosis. Those are the reasons why I think that

this

is a negative development.