Q1: Tell me a time when you suffered from an injury or were pain.

When I was about ten or eleven years old, I suffered from injury that was unable to heal in a week time. Why? You will know it later on as I recount that incident.

That tragic day, I was playing in the school field during recess when the bell went off to notice us that recess had ended. Everyone in the field rushed to the exit like a torrential flood. When I was about to reach the exit, I trip and fall on the rough, red pavement. Blood started to ooze out from my wound. I was then brought to the general office. In the office, the staffs were all doing their things quietly and there were just a few students waiting in the office. I think that they were waiting for their parents to come to fetch then as they felt sick or they simply break the rule and wait to face the music. However I was the only one who was in pale white as I was afraid of pain when there was blood presenting, thus my face was as white as a piece of white paper. I knew this because there were a piece of mirror just a few steps away from me. I waited and waited, till one of staff finally complete his work and helped me to clean and apply my wound. The clean part was extremely painful, he used a piece of cloth that was soak with medicine to clean my wound. The moment when the cloth touched my wound, I broke into tears. It was really pain. Although it was very painful, but I reminded me that next time I had to be more careful.

The wound had slowly healed by itself, unfortunately an incident, again, caused the wound to tear. I climbed up the chair just to take a look of the scenery outside my house. When I descended from the chair, my injured knee knocked onto the small wooden table beside the chair. As the force was quite heavy, my wound tear and the thin piece of skin that mend my wound fall off, and… it started to bleed again. T.T

As the wound only hurt for a few hours, therefore I didn't do anything to relieve the pain. Nevertheless, if it was really painful, I might take some painkiller pills to relieve the pain. If not I would take pills as it had some negative impacts on the body.

Q2: The use of alternative medicine is becoming very widespread. Why might this be so?

The term alternative medicine, as used in the modern western world, encompasses any healing practice "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine". Commonly cited examples include traditional Chinese medicine, meditation, yoga, acupuncture, reflexology, and diet-based therapies, in addition to a range of other practices.

More and more people are using alternative medicine, as the medicine seems to be more effective then the western medicine or the scientific medicine. For example reflexology, involved massaging, squeezing, or pushing on parts of the feet, or sometimes the hands and ears, with the goal of encouraging a beneficial effect on other parts of the body, or to improve general health. This method was able to relieve pain, which mostly the machines or pills can’t achieve. Thus, as simple as yoga can also help to improve general health, it soon becomes widespread.

While some tried alternative medicine because of the side effects of the scientific medicine or fear of pain, since the alternative medicine seems to be harmless to body as it were mainly make use of herbs. As a result, the use of alternative medicine increases.