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Both conventional medicine and alternative or holistic medicine have a part of our attention, even if they are not always approving each other. When we are sick, we are trying many remedies, we are going to the doctor, take the pills or treatment that he prescribes. If it doesn't work, we then change our mind and seek the help of alternative medicine, thinking that it exists for centuries and it sure has the response to your disease. It can be said which of the 2 is better, which of the 2 is making the most sick people be healthy again.
But, the truth is that in many cultures, especially in those of Europe, the holistic medicine has a tradition on their own, and some people believe very hard in it, and won't take any medicines prescribed by the doctor. In some other places, where is little civilization, in small villages, there isn't a doctor. So, every time someone gets sick, the other tries to make him better by giving him the remedies they know from their ancestors. And many times are works, but that is also because the modern diseases haven't yet reached those places. And I think it is good that they treat themselves with the herbs they know (some of these herbs are even sold at the market, so that everyone can benefit from them), instead of taking medicines, that, after all, are chemicals. And is true, some of these medicines make us better, but then they get you sick for another disease.
It is also true that the scientific community is permanently discovering new cures for diseases, so that some diseases which in the past people died, these days do not exist anymore. Alternative medicine cannot cure or make better the people with cancer. But in other diseases that are not so grave, alternative treatments can do so much better to the patients, without needing to take medicines that contain all kind of substances. For example, acupuncture is one of the most used alternative treatments, and it is making people better by inserting some small needles in some particular points, to stop the pain or have other therapeutic meanings. For example, it is well known that acupuncture treatments are doing very well to persons with back problems, that don't seem to get better even if they are taking pills. The alternative medicine has had such a big impact, that in the US it was even formed an Office of Alternative Medicine.