Unfortunately many useful substances/drugs get satanized by societal/political forces. Good examples are nicotine (derivatives would probably be useful in combating dementia), anabolic-androgenic steroids (you can get calf implants,a major surgery, but can't get a anabolic script for cosmetic reasons), and ephedrine (an effective weight-loss drug that is cheap and probably has less side-effects than many anti-obesity prescription drugs). So yeah, alternative medicine definitely has a place in medicine. I think that place should be the doctor's office however.