Bruno Roberto Reis Alves
Professor Claire Nolan
Reading and Composition Level 5B
28 June 2015
Opinion Essay about Alternative Treatments
Nowadays, it can be observed a huge number of people who argue against the traditional medical treatment, believing that may be possible to get some clinical improvement without certain types of conventional treatment. In spite of the positive effects, many researchers study the side effects that some medications and pills can cause. So, the search of a new and more natural medical options is important to improve the potential healing of the treatment and the patient’s health. In this way, a treatment based in herbs and natural products can be a remarkable choice because, like my grandmother always says: “If something is from nature, so it works”
An herb can be described like a plant with therapeutic properties and is useful for many illness. Thus, researches are made for obtain parts of plants with activated health singularity. Many people, like I do, realize that the natural characteristic of herb can be useful and a perfect remedy for some problems. For example, when I have a headache, I drink some herbal tea of some plant with properties that can treat my problem. And some herbs really work, due the scientific proved biochemical properties and their chemical structure that cause many reactions in the organism to accelerate the process of body defense.
Since the old times herbs are used for medical treatments. Many religions trust in the medicinal power of these plants. The cultures who
