Conventional Or Alternative Medicine? “It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has”-said Hyppocrates, to claim that different people could have different illnesses. Also people have different choices about the treatment. When a person gets an illness he has 2 choices about treating: conventional and alternative. People who choose alternative medicine, rely on their past generations’ beliefs about healthy life. However people who choose conventional medicine rely on the power of modern treatment. Conventional one is the most beneficial because it is effective and reliable.

There are some reasons why using conventional medicine is effective. First of all, it helps the patient to recover from illness quickly. For example, if a person has a flu he can recover by taking Coldrex for 2 or 3 days. But when a person uses nonconventional medicine, for example, drinks tea with lemon, he will recover only in a week, but not earlier. In addition, conventional treatment does not have any frequent side effects. For instance,” Lady Sally Baldwin had a breast cancer. She travelled to Tijuana, Mexico to seek an alternative treatment for her illness. She used “Gerson therapy”(a gruelling regime which consists of 13 glasses of carrot, apple and broccoli juice a day, vegetarian food, weekly injections of vitamin B12, five coffee a day) and continued it at home, but she died 2 years later”(theguardian.com,2013). If Sally Baldwin used conventional remedies, her treatment would be safer and faster. Furthermore, traditional way of treatment is reliable. First, people can learn about its source easily. For