Nowadays, a growing number of people with health problems are trying alternative medicines and treatments instead of visiting their usual doctor.
Do you think this is a positive or a negative development?
A growing number of citizens with health issues have begun to adopt using alternative medicines and treatments in place of visiting modern-medical professionals in recent years. Although this trend can be advantageous in certain circumstances, overall, it is disadvantageous from my perspective.
Foremost among the grounds disapproving of the self-use of alternative medicines and treatments, most of them are not backed by strongly-based scientific pieces of evidence. Instead, they are based on ancient practices or anecdotal evidence, meaning their effectiveness and safety are not guaranteed. Therefore, patients who opt for such treatments may risk their health and well-being by avoiding treatments proven to work.
Another argument against relying on alternative medicines and treatments is that it can lead to moral degradation or unscrupulous labour exploitation. Many practitioners of alternative remedies lack proper training and certification, and some even engage in defrauding practices. Therefore, patients choosing those alternatives of cure may be at risk of being taken advantage of by those individuals. For instance, some ethnic minorities in mountainous regions with little knowledge believed in charlatans with alternative treatments instead of qualified doctors. Eventually, their health worsened and became more problematic to cure instead of getting healed; some people even faced mortality.
Those supporting alternative remedies argue there are still effective alternative medicines and treatments. A pertinent example is traditional Asian medicines, dating back hundreds or even thousands of years but remaining productive through various tests and verification. However, it is just a drop in the ocean compared to numerous counterproductive alternative medicines and treatments. In addition, their applicability can be limited, may not advance over time and soon be replaced by modern cures and remedies.
In conclusion, apart from some minor exceptions, the self-use of alternative medicines and treatments can be an ultimate negative development.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so, still, therefore, well, apart from, for instance, in addition, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 10.4138276553 173% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1788.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 295.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.06101694915 5.12529762239 118% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.44332368847 2.80592935109 123% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.627118644068 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 565.2 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.60771543086 118% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 21.6999743983 49.4020404114 44% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 119.2 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6666666667 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.86666666667 7.06120827912 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.246997485691 0.244688304435 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0804720665351 0.084324248473 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0569472587786 0.0667982634062 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139474764698 0.151304729494 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0397422167425 0.056905535591 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 13.0946893788 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 26.81 50.2224549098 53% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.87 12.4159519038 144% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.47 8.58950901804 122% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 78.4519038076 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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