The experience and conflicts in alternative medicine

The truth is that the majority of alternative medicine has produced very similar experiences where it has failed to resolve milder diseases and prevent major ones, but only using different interventions. These are: so-called ‘natural’ supplements, oral or injectable chelators, ‘detoxifiers’, ‘binders’, ‘cleansers’, ‘balancers’, vitamins, oxygenators; also, acupuncture, homeopathy, some machines which allege to detoxify, or electrocute bad germs, or deliver some ‘healing-balancing’ energies. The promised benefits of all alternative treatments can be defined as anything under the sun, but often center around: removing mercury and other heavy metals, killing bad infections such as Lyme and co-infections, candida, or parasites, treating leaky gut and food allergies, restoring energetic, metabolic or nutritional balance through some favored treatments or, usually, a haphazard combination thereof. While it is true that these aforementioned toxic or infectious agents do deserve effective medical treatments, alternative medicine has failed to find these and because virtually treating blindly and recklessly has produced many serious side effects. Obviously, if something has worked well in alternative or integrative medicine these would not have needed as many as 100 or ‘under the sun’ treatments, only formally registered with the NIH.
The bottom line is that according to the Office of Technology Assessment, under the U.S. Congress the actual efficacy and safety rates of all medical interventions are only in a meager 10-15% range. The Director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine under the NIH, Josephine Briggs, MD, has affirmed this by stating, in November, 2014 to the Boston Globe, that both conventional and alternative medicine do not have solutions to chronic diseases. Speaking of the failures, below are just a few out of many accounts of these presented by many patients over the years.