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Essay / Traditional medicine vs. Traditional and modern medicine
Living in good health is essential for everyone's life. Many diseases can affect people's health. Most illnesses are serious and can potentially kill us if we don't treat them as soon as possible. Medicine is very important to prevent diseases before they infect people or to treat them after they get sick. Over the past fifteen years, medicine has improved incredibly from what it was before, but it still shares several traits with traditional methods. Traditional medicine and modern medicine are treatment methods that have similarities and differences. Medicine is a science that studies diseases and injuries that weaken human beings and how to cure them. Medicine refers to the art of treatment which is used to discover, prevent and treat diseases as well as to cure injuries.(1) Traditional medicine and modern medicine are the two main types of medicine. Traditional medicine, i.e. the use of ancient methods of treatment, is mainly based on a preparation of medicinal herbs to treat pain. Modern medicine, that is, the modern way of treating...