“It’s dressed-up quackery isn’t it?” magistrate Daniel Reiss said.
“That’s one view, your honour,” the prosecutor replied.
That is a good summary of pretty much all alternative medicine. Practitioners have gotten very good at dressing it up, enough to even fool academics who aren’t paying close attention. But in the end, it’s all quackery.
The quote above refers to a recent case of a Sydney Chinese herbalist, Yun Sen Luo, who was arrested and charged with manslaughter in the death of 56 year old client he was treating. He advised the diabetic woman to go off her diabetes medication, ultimately resulting in her death. The charge is gross negligence.
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/death-by-herbalism/