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?

Nowadays the usage of alternative forms of medicine is increasingly gaining popularity. Although, on one hand a minor downside is they may not cure the problem, on the other hand in worst case scenarios they maybe life threatening and sometimes even result in death. In my opinion, I totally agree that any different form of medication may be dangerous as they are not proved to be effective and must not be undertaken without complete knowledge.

To begin with, currently a plethora of medications are available in the market and their flashy advertisements lure people into their trap. They propagate their products and methods as painless and natural. However, it may not be necessarily true and at times may have adverse repercussion. To illustrate, a company introduced a pill that claimed to reduce obesity within 30 days. When investigated by the official, they found shocking results, where consumption of the tablet led to the patient experiencing lack of appetite and eating disorders. Consequently, proving that blindly falling prey to marketing gimmicks may have adverse effects.

Secondly, most of these alternative practices have not been proved to be helpful by any doctor or medical board. Hence, the authenticity and reliability of them is questionable. Lastly, consuming or undertaking anything without completely understanding it's ingredients or method may pose danger to life. For example, reiki claimed to provide healing using universal energy. However, until today it has not been scientifically proven. Therefore, although some techniques may at best be ineffective they should not be undertaken without proper research.

To recapitulate, I strongly believe that medicines should be consumed without guided supervision and trying any alternative forms may tend to be risky. They are not backed by science and under no condition must be entertained without conducting a thorough search.

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Average: 8.9 (1 vote)
Essays by the user:

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 180, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'in the worst'.
Suggestion: in the worst
...not cure the problem, on the other hand in worst case scenarios they maybe life threaten...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, hence, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, for example, in my opinion, to begin with, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1623.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 296.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.48310810811 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10134215096 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.638513513514 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 519.3 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.7726939908 49.4020404114 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.4705882353 106.682146367 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4117647059 20.7667163134 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.58823529412 7.06120827912 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => 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: 0.258105123994 0.244688304435 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0720220117264 0.084324248473 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.058226531264 0.0667982634062 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151501256536 0.151304729494 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0287854984178 0.056905535591 51% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.0946893788 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.3 50.2224549098 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.76 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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