Alternative medicine should be used more in the Western Culture

Before I begin my points, I would like to rebutt the points that you have laid out. Rebuttal There are no valid scientific studies that show alternative medicine has more effect than a placebo. This is not necessarily true as there are cases in which alternative medicine does work even though conventional medicine does not. An example of this is when Sally* had a skin condition that caused her skin to become pale. When she spoke to conventional doctors, they told her that it was incurable and would just spread all over her body, providing her with only foundation. However she then went to a ayurvedic doctor that used alternative medicines, who gave her a treatment that did reduce the amount of infection to only a small amount just under her chin. Although it did take some time, it did cure it and if she had listened to the advice of a conventional doctor her life would be a lot different than it is now. *This name was changed for privacy reasons. Negative Points: Conventional medicine, like all drugs, has side effects. If you overdose (take too much), you"ll die. This is especially true for paracetamol like panadol, that people often take. Even cold medicine that most people think is completely safe has side effects that can sometimes make people drowsy and tired, and sometimes increase their heart rate and cause them to be restless and anxious. This is only listing a few of the side effects that it has. When in surgery, surgeons use general anaesthetics to make the patient unconscious. If they use too much, the patient wont wake up, if they use too little the patient will wake up and feel the pain. It is a fact that conventional medicine, though tested in laboratories and approved by the AMA and FDA, still has many side effects that seem to sometimes harm patients more than it helps them. As a result of side effects, you begin to take more medicines to heal those side effects that the original medicine caused and so you're just continuing to harm your body even more. This shows that conventional medicine is risky and has side effects whether it is simple cold medicine or medicine for more serious injuries. Alternative medicine has helped many people by giving them an alternative to conventional medicine"s negative side effects and less natural beginnings. Alternative medicine also helps heal patients on a higher level than conventional medicine. Unlike conventional medicine, which generally only focuses on curing the immediate illness, alternative medicine works on both the cause and effect of the illness and uses herbs from nature, hands on techniques and even mental techniques like meditation to help the patient get better. Alternative medicine allows the patient to be involved in their own recovery by telling them to do, like exercise and therapy. This makes them think that they are helping themselves get better and so they have better morale, which contributes to their recovery. Instead of simply taking a pill as in conventional medicine patients take part in their own recovery and gain mental, physical, spiritual and emotional benefits. Conclusion Alternative medicine should be used more in today"s society which is mostly governed by the western culture, because it covers many of the faults that conventional medicine has. That concludes my case.