Traditional medicine, such as acupuncture and herbal remedies, is very popular in some countries. Those who practice traditional medicine claim it is better than modern medicine in maintaining and improving health. Do you agree or disagree with this viewpoint?

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In my country, Indonesia, traditional
medicine
raised
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its popularity. It was started
on
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pandemic
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era, alongside
with
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other Eastern Asian countries which even have traditional
medicine
as a major option in universities. Herbal
medicine
practicioners
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practitioners
even often
claims
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natural ways
for
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of
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healing are better than using modern
medicine
. I
have
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once recovered from Asthma by drinking bitter
roots
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root
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extract after spending five years on intensive
treatment
from
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local
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a local
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hospital. I
remembered
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collapsing at school because I felt so out of breath and dizzy. I was
then
brought to my regular doctor to be treated as I usually do every month. I got injected
by
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something
then
feeling
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all better
few
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hours later. I never knew how the drug administered before would chemically
interacting
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with my body so that it could stop the symptoms, what I knew was that I was
depended
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on that
treatment
. I
also
gained so much weight since taking the
treatment
. So
that
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, my parents started to other alternative
treatment
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treatments
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. I got introduced to
a
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chinese
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medicine
and tried my fortune. Just like modern
medicine
, I got
prescription
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but
this
time it was like a recipe of herbs and roots that
will
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get extracted. The "doctor" explained to me how each of those herbs and roots would chemically help me, compared to
general
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drug
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drugs
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which
is
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are highly
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highly-processed
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processed
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,
may
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and may
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have unnatural interactions with my body
then
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and then
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would bring side effects in the future.
Although
modern
medicine
comes from decades of study with the help of advanced technology, at certain
point
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points
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it may against the natural way which the body can not accept,
that is
why many people
having
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complications from years of modern
treatment
.
In contrast
, herbal and traditional
medicine
works
along with
the
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nature.
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