Alternative Medicine: The Junk Science

Alternative medicines are widely used around the world and are becoming more controversial each day. Alternative medicines are considered in the eyes of some doctors as “junk science”. Not only do they see the medicines as “junk science” but they also fear that the medicines can potentially be very dangerous. “Junk science” according to junkscience.com is “faulty scientific data and analysis used to advance special interests and hidden agendas”. In other words, “junk science” practicing or studying something without scientific evidence or without scientific evidence of the study. In the eyes of some doctors there is no such thing as alternative medicine; they are just therapeutic treatments that can be potentially dangerous. Doctors believe that the alternative medicines can be potentially dangerous due to the lack of scientific evidence. Because there is no scientific evidence, they don’t know the full potential of the treatment, they don’t know the long term effects nor do they know if the treatments can open doors to other sicknesses or bacteria. And eventually you will be stuck with a sickness that’s worse than the reason you’re taking the medicine in the first place.

Along with alternative medicines there are also complementary medicines. According to Wikipedia.com Complementary medicine is an alternative medicine used together with conventional medical treatment in a belief, not proven by scientific methods that “complement the treatment”. Complementary medicines are basically the sidekick to the conventional medicines, they help the conventional medicines work to the best of its ability think of it as Batman and Robin kind of concept. The complementary medicine is there to help the conventional medicines in the areas they l...

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...ariety of shapes and forms. There are so many different ways to take these medicines, ways as simple as inhaling the aromas of a hydrolat. While some doctors believe that alternative medicines are just a waste of time and effort because it’s a “junk science”, it has effects on people that in most cases most medicines don’t have. For example medicinal marijuana is often prescribed to patients with eating disorders or taking medicines that completely eliminates the appetite. Alternative medicines may not have and scientific evidence behind it but it does have a lot of visual evidence behind it. By visual evidence I mean evidence provided by observation of patient on the treatment, how they react to it, does it help, will it cause long term effects etc. Alternative medicines are becoming more diverse and they are multiplying like crazy and is the medicine of tomorrow.