There are two
principal types of medicine: the conventional and alternative medicine. These
both are called in other several ways; nonetheless, for terms of this essay we
are going to call them like that respectively. To start with the theme, we will
describe the meaning, characteristics, and differences between them and also
the importance and impact they have in our lives.
Medicine has much to do
with our own culture. In different countries we can find many kinds of curative
methods. Some of them keep a narrow relation to certain ideas depending on the
culture the medicine is from. For example in the East, oriental people in China
have acupuncture and herbalist that goes along with specific beliefs they have
like chacras, ying and yang etc. You cannot practice that kind of medicine if
you don’t have enough knowledge about those beliefs, and the methods they apply
follow those ideas and have a logical reason according to that.
In Occident we have
conventional medicine which consists in chemical medication, drugs, academic
doctors, hospitals and an entire medical business system. This type of medicine
does not have a connection to any kind of faith. It is only based on scientific
researches and investigations about the human body and how it reacts when
exposed to some chemical substances. Both, conventional and alternative have
advantages and drawbacks, nevertheless, each one have their own attributes and
can be applied at once to complement one another. Now we are going to discover
the differences between them.
Conventional medicine
attacks the symptoms but not the real cause of the disease. The problem with
this is that if you do not know the cause, you most likely will fall into that
condition again because you are just healing the effects not the origin of the
problem. Other characteristic of this medicine is that, compared with the human
existence on the earth, is quite new and is still having new discoveries, new techniques, curative
methods and having breakthroughs. It is considered as a science and its diagnosis
is performed through machines to discover the disease, and the methods are
basically treatments of drugs, medicines and surgeries.
On the other hand, we
have alternative medicine which is not considered as a science because some of
alternative methods are connected to religious concepts or based on mystical
beliefs. The principal objective of this medicine is to cure the cause of the
disease. The methods are natural resources like plants, music, magnetism,
scents, meditation, and other elements that do not come from industries. The
ones who practice these types of medicines almost do not use any kind of
machines but instruments and tools to perform the treatment. Unlike the
conventional medicine, the alternative has been practiced since the beginning
of the human existence. It was the first medicine because in the past there
were not chemical drugs to cure and the human health was not a business like
nowadays.
In addition to this
topic I am going to add the homeopathic medicine which establishes that what
causes disease in a healthy person, can cure him/her in little doses consumed.
This is a direct opposite idea compared to allopathic or conventional medicine
because it consists in to consume something different to de agent is getting you
sick. Either way homeopathic is not considered as a real medicine but a
placebo.
In my opinion, we can
combine both of them, conventional and alternative so that we can have a
complete successful treatment. Human body is not only chemistry and physics; we
are much more, we have emotions and feelings which can lead us into sickness.
The problem begins since conventional medicine is not affordable for everyone.
It is so sad that “universal medicine service” is just a goal, not a reality.
The health
professionals should be more humanized and think about how to help people truly
instead of turning health into a business. Everyone that needs medical
attention should be able to afford it without discrimination. The insurance
people think that sick people is costing lots of money but if they helped them
to prevent, they would not be in that situation and the money spent could be
less. Finally in Mexico we have more options to choose if you get into
sickness, you can go to conventional or alternative. If you choose
conventional, you have private or public options. It is a relief that we can
have it here.
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