USAGE OF NONCONVENTIONAL MEDICINE
If we ask you, what is the most important thing that you should have in the world? The general answer is mostly to be healthy; therefore people have been using many kinds of treatments for their health since the beginning of history. Beside conventional medicine, many ways that we call nonconventional or alternative medicine to cure health problems has evolved for hundreds years. According to a survey, even prehistoric men used plants for therapeutic purpose and since then nonconventional medicine in other words complementary medicine has been popular all over the world. Today there are more than a hundred different treatments in the world. The reason of that nonconventional medicine take so much interest is that people sometimes are not able to find any remedy for their health problems and they resort to alternative medicine. I think conventional medicine is not always perfect to solve the problems of patients and people should try some alternative ways to heal their sickness on condition that under the consultation and if doing that comes to us logically, trying to find any useful thing is more beneficial than sitting waiting the death.
Nonconventional medicine, also named alternative medicine, is based on the belief that includes body, soul, emotions and spirit. Alternative medicine’s aim is not limited with the treating illnesses, it also focus on improving the quality of life; therefore it shouldn’t be assessed in terms of only one side that treating the illnesses. Usage of nonconventional medicine can be extended from illness to stress with the methods of alternative medicine including acupuncture, ayurveda, hypnotherapy…There are many pleased people with the using alternative medicine that is based on traditional and natural methods. Nonconventional medicine is composed of many years experience; therefore it is trustable. For example; according to our culture when somebody has a low tension, it is advised to drink salty ayran. I have witnessed many people whose tensions turn to normal degree when they drink it. It shows that alternative medicine has a good effect on people.
All over the world, there have been many nations and culture since ancient times and nearly all of culture have nonconventional medicine systems many of which were developed before the conventional medicine. Well, when the conventional medicine did not exist, how did people cure their illnesses? I am sure that they could heal their health problems with alternative medicine. In addition, every culture has complementary medicine from eastern cultures where it is widespread to western cultures. If people didn’t see any good effect of alternative medicine, why would nearly all of culture develop and use alternative medical treatment? The most effective example is Aborigine community. As far as I remember from the book that I read some years ago about the interesting life of Aborigines, they cure their illnesses only with alternative medicine. They use herbal methods because they live out of mass community, city life and technology and also they have never chance to see a doctor even if their illness is so serious. However; Aborigines are still alive…
The people, against nonconventional medicine, support that alternative medical treatment has side effects. However; if alternative medicine is practiced skillfully, it has no side effects and also complementary medicine consists of natural substances, it doesn’t include any chemical substances. However, all over the world, there are many alternative medicine centers, but sometimes especially in U.S.A they can be quack and the product that the quack has advised might be fake and has dangerous side effects .Their aim is to gain money using the Hopelessness of patient. We should be careful and we should consult the expert in his section. In addition most people think that nonconventional medicine has less side effect than conventional medicine. People, against alternative medicine, again support that nonconventional medicine is not beneficial. They are unproven and traditional methods. However; the conventional medicine has accepted the existence of and effectiveness of nonconventional medicine methods. For example; hypnotherapy, a method of nonconventional medicine, is used now in a field of conventional medicine.
In conclusion, If we have an illness, we absolutely see a doctor because science of conventional medicine has so developed that we can also trust it but when we cannot find any solution, we can try nonconventional medicine as alternative way but carefully because one out of ten people who uses a quack’s products is hurt in some ways. If we don’t want to be hurt ,we should be alerted. I agree with the advocates of nonconventional medicine that it is beneficial for us and finally according to me, we should combine conventional medicine and nonconventional medicine because if there is only one, either nonconventional or conventional, it must be illogical.