Twisted bowel or volvulus implies an abnormal looping and twisting of the intestine (small or large), resulting in bowel obstruction. Such obstruction hampers intestinal blood supply, and may lead to death (necrosis) of the gut tissue.
The main advantages of western medicine are accessibility and ease  in dosing. Disadvantages include becoming immune to certain drugs  after using them for long periods; mas â¦ king the health issue instead  of actually fixing the underlying problem; and the high costs.he advantages of using alternative medicines are that there are  not side effects (usually). Alternative medicine can heal the body  completely. But this takes time.
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness.