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?

In recent years, alternative forms of medicine have become a highly recognized topic of discussion among medical experts, causing some public controversy. Although these kinds of medicine are considered beneficial in some cases, they can be fraught with pitfalls due to their negative impacts on patients.

One of the most compelling reasons is that they are ineffective. First, most alternative therapies nowadays are reliant on psychological effect experienced by the patients. In fact, by perceiving the improvements in their medical condition, even if these are not real, these patients are tricked into believe they are being cured, much due to personal expectations. In addition, the patients might waste a great deal of money by choosing unconventional treatments, including acupuncture and homeopathy, as they have no scientific basis. In fact, recent clinical tests show that the health conditions of patients treated by these medicines are not getting better, which suggests their effects are insignificant.

Besides, the use of alternative medicines can be counterproductive. First, many desperate patients have visited unqualified practitioners to treat several chronic illnesses, such as insomnia, which potentially deteriorates their health. As a result, these patients might be vulnerable to medical malpractice, especially allergic reactions, by taking alternative medicines. Second, by listening to word of mouth, plenty of citizens tend to blindly follow alternative treatments hoping that they can be effectively treated. This would have several adverse impacts on the patients themselves, as these alternative medicines can be dangerous.

In conclusion, even though alternative treatments offer certain benefits, they seem to do more harm than good. By getting the right medicines and actively engaging in exercise, citizens will certainly have a healthier life.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 538, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, if, second, so, in addition, in conclusion, in fact, such as, as a result, in some cases

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 10.4138276553 19% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1619.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 275.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.88727272727 5.12529762239 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1941061425 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.603636363636 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 504.0 506.74238477 99% => 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: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.4974829087 49.4020404114 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.642857143 106.682146367 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6428571429 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.42857142857 7.06120827912 105% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.164591946499 0.244688304435 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0636109038277 0.084324248473 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0427212127942 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0973374191423 0.151304729494 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0313718078893 0.056905535591 55% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.0946893788 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 50.2224549098 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.88 12.4159519038 136% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.57 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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