You never were specific about what you considered to be "alternative" medicine.

You went on at length about double-blind studies. As is pointed out in the abstract I posted above, they aren't the be-all and end-all when it comes to treating an individual patient. They are the basis for a statistical assessment of certain types of medical treatment, mostly pharmaceauticals--many accepted medical procedures have not been subjected to double-blind studies, and, for a variety of reasons(also in the abstract above) many cannot be--