ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

Name: Edwin Alexander Guzmán Cualchi

Level: VII-VII (3366)
Date: May 28,2021

Differences between alternative and conventional medicine:

ALTERNATIVEMEDICINE CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE

Based on anecdotal evidence, belief or magical
thinking.
Administered by practitioners.
Not recognised by the medical profession .
Not scientifically proven.
Many date back longer than conventional
medicine.
Based on scientific knowledge and evidence.
Administered by doctors and nurses.
Recognised by the medical profession and
taught in medical school.
Scientifically proven to work.

• Do you think alternative medicines work better than modern drugs?

I think that some alternative drugs work better than modern drugs. A serious example to
relieve body aches.

• Has alternative medicine helped you or anyone you know?

In my family, alternative medicine works for my grandparents, helping them with spinal pain,
me too, once I went to an alternative medicine center to help me with leg pain and they did
acupuncture

• Do you think alternative medicine is just a fad?

I believe that alternative medicine comes from many generations, so I do not think it is a
passing fad, many families have used it for many years

• What kind of people use alternative medicine?

People who cannot receive conventional medicine and people who have some type of pain
and cannot treat it.

• Do you think we can find all the medicines we need from the natural world
rather than using manufactured drugs?

I think not, there are many medicines that are not found in nature or it takes a long time to
obtain them naturally.

• Should governments fund alternative medicines and treatments?

I think yes, it helps the development of new drugs, they could even be more effective than
manufactured drugs, it would even financially incentivize many families.