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?

Alternative medicine is not new. It pre-dates conventional medicine and has been followed by wide range of people throughout the world. I am unconvinced that it is dangerous and I feel that both alternative and conventional can be useful.

There are many reasons why alternative medicine is opposed by conventional medical communities. Firstly, there has been no scientific research in conventional medicine, hence there is no evidence for the supporters to claim the benefits of alternative medicine. Secondly, people often try this with recommendations either from friends or family members. After treatment, they come to the therapists with a positive attitude, which might be the prime reason for cure. Moreover, alternative medicine can be used to treat long term and chronic problems but for surgeries, conventional medicine is the only solution.

On the other hand, there are several reasons why alternative medicine was opted by its supporters. Despite the lack of scientific proof, there is a lot of evidence to claim that alternative medicine works. The most important argument is that it does not create any side effects like conventional medicine.

I believe that conventional and alternative medicine should co-exist. Only if both the techniques are used, it will be helpful for mankind to cure most of the deadly diseases.

Votes
Average: 5.6 (1 vote)
Essays by the user:

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, i feel, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 41.998997996 52% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1136.0 1615.20841683 70% => OK
No of words: 210.0 315.596192385 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.40952380952 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.80675409584 4.20363070211 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0998646741 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 122.0 176.041082164 69% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.580952380952 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 370.8 506.74238477 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.5401084617 49.4020404114 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.3846153846 106.682146367 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.1538461538 20.7667163134 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.84615384615 7.06120827912 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.113125435495 0.244688304435 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0448814046126 0.084324248473 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0219798611752 0.0667982634062 33% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0685034172589 0.151304729494 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0333572437925 0.056905535591 59% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 38.31 50.2224549098 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.8 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.58950901804 91% => OK
difficult_words: 45.0 78.4519038076 57% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum 250 words wanted.

Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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