Alternative Medicine: Understanding The Risks And Benefits

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Section 1

Outline/Plan

The topic of the essay is Alternative Medicine. Different areas and sections are needed to be included in the essay. These consists of the following as mentioned below:

It will help in introducing the exact purpose of the topic which will be reflected throughout the paper.  The introduction section will effectively provide the information regarding the topic of Alternative medicine and various aspects related to it.

This will help in summarizing the desired ideas about the topic.

This section will reveal the different facts about the topic. Moreover, it will also reveal the background information about the topic.

This section will reveal the utilization of the feedback to make future improvements.

Working Thesis Statement

Various alternative medicines are capable of improving a person’s health even many of the doctors do not suggest taking alternative medicines as all of these are not declared as safe.

Starting Draft

It has been seen that the use of alternative medicines is not advised by the doctors in general. There are a large number of the alternative medicines those are not declared as to be safe. Therefore, the consumption of various alternative medicines may significantly affect the health of the concerned person's.

On the other hand, there is a wide range of reasons for people to use alternative medicines. It has been evaluated that the use of different alternative medicines has different side-effects on human health. The use of these medicines without the proper consult of a doctor may give rise to several diseases (Fortier et al., 2014). People have found out various reasons to facilitate the use of different medicines that may have significant effects on their health. As, one of the old people was effectively using several medicines for getting relief from head pain, and this has resulted in his memory loss after a few months. It was essential for him to consult the doctor rather than increasing the consumption of those alternative medicines (Yadav et al., 2014).   Moreover, on the other hand, it has been evaluated that there are some of the people those who do not visit doctors regularly, and it, therefore, becomes vital for the pole to not to use these medicines without consulting the doctors as this generates great amount of effect on the human health (Green, Santoro, Allshouse, Neal-Perry & Derby, 2017).  

Different facts about different people help in understanding that fewer people do not visit doctors regularly due to their unusual nature but on the other hand, there are few of the people that visit to doctor and also consumes more medicines that are prescribed the doctor. The use of the latest technology has also brought many changes in managing the health of the concerned people.   CAM is considered the group of the diverse medical as well as health care systems whose primary motive is to facilitate h overall effusiveness o the Human Health (Hashempur, Heydari, Mosavat, Heydari & Shams, 2015).   It was found that throughout the United States, approximately 38 percent of the respective adults and 12 percent of the children. The thesis statement reflected the need to understand the effects of using alternative medicines without getting it prescribed by the doctor.  The consumption of alternative medicines cannot be considered to be safe before consulting any doctor (Owen-Smith et al., 2015). There are different side-effects which may significantly affect the health of the consumers.

Outline/Plan

It is a matter of the fact that people living all across the world are effectively using several alternative medicines in place of the mainstream medicines because of several reasons. One of the reasons is the unavailability and scarcity of the medicines at particular times. On the other hand, there are different techniques used by scientists to fulfill the requirement of appropriate medicines to cure instantly (Pharmd et al., 2017).  It is considered for people to use only those medicines that area declared as to be safe by the concerned medical authorities. In the scarcity of particular mainstream medicine, many people consume alternative medicine after getting recommendations from friends and family members which should not be done as it significantly affects the health of the concerned person. One of the benefits of alterative medicines is that they are readily available and work same as that of the mainstream medicine but it has several side effects, and this needs to be adequately analyzed by people (Ravindran et al., 2016). Few of the other people use alternative medicines when they go stick to some mediation or yoga. It becomes the primary responsibility of the government to create awareness among the people regarding being alert about the composition of the alternative medicines used by them. Furthermore, it is vital for the concerned authorities to increase the inspection and verification of the medicines before they are going to be sold throughput the concerned market segments (Sharma, 2018).

Feedback Reflection

The feedback clearly states that the research needs to be carried out with proper points and the use of the communication process should be excellent to transfer the exact messages to the reader. The feedback also helped in highlighting those areas which require a great amount of improvement. It is important to highlight the thesis statement with the clear and precise meaning of the concerned topic as it helps in transferring the desired message to the concerned reader.  I have used the feedback by executing proper research and by following the appropriate structure for the entire paper. The use of this feedback will help in enhancing the overall effectiveness while completing my future tasks. To complete any project successfully, I have understood that conduct proper research with an appropriate topic sentence is considered to be very crucial. The development of the proper outline while executing proper essay is vital as it helps in making the reader about the topic in a defined way. The use of grammar, punctuation and sentence formation is vital as it helps in transferring the clear and concise messages to the concerned reader. Moreover, it can be said that following these points will help in achieving my future goals.

References

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2. Green, R. R., Santoro, N., Allshouse, A. A., Neal-Perry, G., & Derby, C. (2017). Prevalence of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Herbal Remedy Use in Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Women: Results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 23(10), 805-811.
3. Hashempur, M. H., Heydari, M., Mosavat, S. H., Heydari, S. T., & Shams, M. (2015). Complementary and alternative medicine use in Iranian patients with diabetes mellitus. Journal of integrative medicine, 13(5), 319-325.
4. Owen-Smith, A. A., Bent, S., Lynch, F. L., Coleman, K. J., Yau, V. M., Pearson, K. A., ... & Croen, L. A. (2015). Prevalence and predictors of complementary and alternative medicine use in a large insured sample of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Research in autism spectrum disorders, 17, 40-51.
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6. Ravindran, A. V., Balneaves, L. G., Faulkner, G., Ortiz, A., McIntosh, D., Morehouse, R. L., ... & MacQueen, G. M. (2016). Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) 2016 clinical guidelines for the management of adults with the major depressive disorder: section 5. complementary and alternative medicine treatments. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 61(9), 576-587.
7. Sharma, U. M. (2018). Using alternative therapies: marginal medicine and central concerns. In New Directions in the Sociology of Higher Education(pp. 127-139). Routledge.
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