‘alternative’ medicine can sometimes effect a cure when ‘conventional’ medical treatment can’t
in part, this may be attributable to a placebo effect – the patient’s belief that the treatment will effect a cure results in a positive outcome
in other cases, the cure may be the result not of a placebo effect but because the alternative medical approach has triggered real physical/bio-chemical changes in the patient’s body that help to effect a cure
that said, you wouldn’t want this woman for your mother if you were suffering from constipation – just saying !