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    The document discusses alternative medicine and its relationship to modern Western medicine. It notes that while alternative medicine is often considered an alternative, practitioners view it as supplementary. It also discusses that alternative therapies are sometimes dismissed by conventional doctors due to lack of formal training, but Western medicine is relatively new compared to traditional herbal medicine. The WHO plans to integrate proven alternative knowledge into Western medicine.

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    The document discusses alternative medicine and its relationship to modern Western medicine. It notes that while alternative medicine is often considered an alternative, practitioners view it as supplementary. It also discusses that alternative therapies are sometimes dismissed by conventional doctors due to lack of formal training, but Western medicine is relatively new compared to traditional herbal medicine. The WHO plans to integrate proven alternative knowledge into Western medicine.

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    The document discusses alternative medicine and its relationship to modern Western medicine. It notes that while alternative medicine is often considered an alternative, practitioners view it as supplementary. It also discusses that alternative therapies are sometimes dismissed by conventional doctors due to lack of formal training, but Western medicine is relatively new compared to traditional herbal medicine. The WHO plans to integrate proven alternative knowledge into Western medicine.

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    5. Alternative medicine

    Alternative medicine is, by definition, an alternative to something else: modern, Western medicine.
    But the term ‘alternative’ can be misleading, even off-putting for some people. Few practitioners of
    homeopathy, acupuncture, herbalism and the like regard their therapies as complete substitutes for
    modern medicine. Rather, they consider their disciplines as supplementary to orthodox medicine.
    The problem is that many doctors refuse even to recognize ‘natural’ or alternative medicine, to do
    so calls for a radically different view of health, illness and cure. But whatever doctors may think,
    the demand for alternative forms of medical therapy is stronger than ever before, as the limitations
    of modern medical science become more widely understood.

    Alternative therapies are often dismissed by orthodox medicine because they are sometimes
    administered by people with no formal medical training. But, in comparison with many traditional
    therapies, western medicine as we know it today is a very recent phenomenon. Until only 150 years
    ago, herbal medicine and simple inorganic compounds were the most effective treatments available.
    Despite the medical establishment’s intolerant attitude, alternative therapies are being accepted by
    more and more doctors, and the World Health Organization has agreed to promote the integration of
    proven, valuable, ‘alternative’ knowledge and skills in western medicine.

    Questions

    1. The term ‘alternative’ is ...


    a. not entirely appropriate.
    b. rejected by Western medicine.
    c. very recent.

    2. Alternative therapy is often rejected by conventional doctors because ...


    a. it is not beneficial.
    b. it is misleading.
    c. practitioners are often not qualified.

    3. Few practitioners of alternative medicine think their therapies should ...


    a. substitute modern medicine.
    b. complement modern medicine.
    c. be accepted by the medical establishment.

    4. Western medicine ...


    a. is based on many traditional therapies.
    b. has existed for a comparatively short time.
    c. is practised by people with no formal medical training.

    5. The World Health Organization ...


    a. has an intolerant attitude towards alternative therapies.
    b. will support effective knowledge and skills.
    c. will support all alternative medicine.

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