“Alternative medicine” may be an effective tool for maintaining a healthy balance. I suspect it may normally be wildly ineffective at dealing with serious or life-threatening problems.
As I’ve been thinking about this issue, I realized that the condemnation of modern medicine has much in common with the condemnation of capitalism.
Both take the much healthier (more prosperous and peaceful) world created by the system they denounce, as if that world “just happened.” Then they concentrate on the deficiencies and perceived failures of the system, ignoring its benefits, to denounce the system itself as bad. Forgetting what the natural state of man prior to the development of these systems was like, and assuming that we can continue to have the benefits of these systems while rejecting them.
The natural state of man is poverty-stricken, oppressed, trapped in endless war, and infected with parasites and pathogenic bacteria.
Natural is nasty.
You could be describing the Left's attitude towards free market economics, or towards Western Civilization in general.