Little Hawk, a constructive approach would include testing alternative methods in an approved scientific manner, in the same ways that drugs and surgerical procedures and other medical therapies are tested. As things are, no alternative therapies, be they herbal, physical, or mental, are adequately tested, and sometimes, when the medical establishment does attempt to test them, they are determined to be useless or dangerous - or both.

I'm well aware that many drugs are developed from herbs and bark and roots, but in most cases, the key is developed, with toxins removed and dosages regularised.