Alternative Medicine and Mainstream Medicine

I feel like alternative medication is disgusting, because you do not know how clean or sanitary the tools, or treatments are.

Alternative medicine is any treatment that is not part of the traditional medical system,like someone would learn in nursing school, or paramedic training. "Complementary are those used alongside conventional medicine. Recent research has disproved the usefulness of many of these therapies." (USA Today) Alternative medicine is a different way to cure a disease, or another type of medicine that works the same. There are many types of medicine that are off brands, they work the same as the name brand. These medicines are the cheaper, and work the same as the name brand medicine. "The question, however, is: which products work? How do we know they work?" (Washington Post)

There are many other types of alternative medications, like procedures. For example, if a procedure that you need is not available in the U.S., you can have the same procedure done in switzerland. The procedure may not be safe, sterile, or sanitary.

The newsgroups are always talking about the effectiveness of alternative treatments, most of this talk is not proven to be true. Lately complementary and alternative medicine has become really popular. About 40% of adults have reported using alternative medicine sometime in their life. Doctors have been using CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine), and combining them with actual therapies and calling them “integrative medicine.” Alternative medicine changes constantly as treatments go through testing and move into the mainstream. All of the alternative procedures and therapies are classified by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). The agency funds scie...

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...s and not good for the well being of this country.

Studies have shown that about 75% of alternative remedies are not backed up by any scientific research. Most remedies or therapies are backed up by biased research instead of actual studies.

The use of this alternate medication is increasing, even though most if these treatments have been proved to have no effect. Many companies claim that they can cure the illness, but only do it for the money.

"The use of alternative medicine although it must be noted that most of these treatment alternatives have no proven clinical effect." (Glaucoma) Many people are choosing to do these therapies, or procedures because they are cheaper, and easier. These procedures and therapies are not proven to be safe. Many countries do not have the needed tools to do these procedures right. This is why I am against Alternative Medicine.