gnu - keep in mind that a lot of people get treated by highly respected conventional medical methods that are intended to cure them "eight months before they die" too. Or one month before they die. And they still die anyway. What does that prove? It proves that nothing is guaranteed, but you might as well try whatever you think may help...after all, it's your life, right? So it's your decision.

Both conventional AND alternative methods of healing MIGHT save your life, but I doubt that there's any method out there that can claim a 100% success rate. About the lowest success rate I know of for curing people is conventional medicine's rate of curing cancer, for example.