Currently there is a trend towards the use of alternative forms of medicine. However, at best these methods are ineffective, and at worst they may be dangerous.
To what extent do you agree with this statement?
Use of alternative medicines is increasing day by day. Although some people argue that these methods are detrimental effects on our health, I believe that they do not have any side effect at all. This essay will first discuss why some medical community is not in favor of alternatives of conventional medicines, and then discuss how alternative medicines are proving effective and helpful. And they should be leveraged more if we use them in combination with traditional medicines.
One of the arguments against the use of alternatives of conventional medicine put forward by some medical communities is that there has not done enough scientific research to support their effectiveness. Mainly, traditional medicines are recommended by doctors because they are laboratory tested and only allowed to use after drugs regulatory bodies approval. So, to use alternative medicines which do not have sufficient evidence is often discouraged. Furthermore, as many people use these methods because they are recommended by their family members or friends, they go to the therapist with the positive attitude, which may be the part of the reason for the cure. Moreover, they are helpful for only long-term, chronic conditions. Acute medical problems, such as accidental injuries can be treated only by mainstream medicines.
Having said that, they are many arguments in favor of alternative medicines. Despite the lack of scientific research, there is a lot of anecdotal evidence to prove that they are proving helpful. So far, there is no a single case found where they caused more harm than good. Far from being dangerous, they do not have any side effects; the worst outcome would be no change. In addition to this, there is a strong evidence which proves their effectiveness, in the west, while conventional medicines are available for free, people are ready to pay for therapies. If they were unhelpful and insidious, people cannot continuously use them.
The upshot is, because of not enough scientific research, the medical community is often dismissive of alternative medicines, but they have their own strength and proved effective in many medical problems. I feel that they can be leveraged more by using them with conventional medicines.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 212, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, if, may, moreover, so, then, while, i feel, in addition, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 13.1623246493 198% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 24.0651302605 141% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1889.0 1615.20841683 117% => OK
No of words: 357.0 315.596192385 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29131652661 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34677393335 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95685563349 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52380952381 0.561755894193 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 621.9 506.74238477 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.3276617355 49.4020404114 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.944444444 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8333333333 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94444444444 7.06120827912 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211672033267 0.244688304435 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0734763751412 0.084324248473 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0462744561003 0.0667982634062 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140844363192 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0317266296287 0.056905535591 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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