Since the FDA reserves the right to use the word "cure" only for substances that have gone through clinical trials, and no company will push a clinical trial for a natural substance without patent protection, I don't think you realize what you're asking. Besides, traditional medicine has never prevented or cured a chronic, metabolic condition with drugs or surgery. Maybe you are thinking of acute conditions where traditional medicine saves lives? Do you understand that the medical profession is based on symptom management and does not go after the root causes of chronic, metabolic diseases so you can be a repeat customer for life, dependent on their symptom relieving drugs?
Alternative methods are wide, all encompassing treatment protocols that are tailored to an individual's particular situation, not a disease. So you won't have a "cure" for a disease, just for a person. And since it would probably consist of a few different alternative methods, how would you quantify the outcomes? In my case, dysbiosis was the first nail in my coffin, followed by the liver methylation problems and nutritional deficiencies brought on my bad digestion. Finally, all of this resulted in heavy metal poisoning. Long story short, I fixed the dysbiosis first, then the liver methylation problems, and now I am doing chelation and making real progress on getting over CFS. I used diet and supplements (vitamins, minerals, enzymes, metabolites and a few herbs) and was only able to do all of this after I realized the "symptom-relieving, drugs only" nature of the medical profession. If I have a heart attack or a broken leg, I'll crawl or hop to the doctor. But if I have a chronic condition, I will run from the doctor as he will only make it worse like they did with my CFS. Not only did they fail to diagnose dysbiosis, they never even told me about avoiding gluten and dairy foods - they are especially clueless when it comes to nutrition. I started off seeing a digestive disease specialist; this was the same idiot who not only failed to diagnose problems in my intestines, but who, when asked if the food I was eating could be part of the problem, said "no way". Doctors go to school to learn to sell drugs and surgery, not how to fix a sick body.
I was so desperate after a year and a half with no help from my doctors that I went to a chiropractor. Back then, I was a believer in traditional medicine only but, looking back, that was only because of my severe ignorance coupled with an extreme case of cranium in rectum. My chiropractor gave me a small pamphlet on CFS that mentioned food intolerance and the importance of diet. I began feeling better just from getting adjusted (who knew?) and then I started cutting out wheat and dairy and eating more veggies. After that I started googling. If you put "natural remedies" in with your searches, you will cut out a lot of the medical profession's useless advice, I found.
I know from personal experience that nutritional supplements can help a wide range of conditions. One thing that has helped me greatly is oil of oregano. I have watched the yeast and bad bacteria dwindle in numbers over time from using oil of oregano. I was able to see the progress on my stool analysis tests which measure levels of yeast and bacteria. I know I "cured" my candida with oil of oregano because I saw it happen. I guess I could make my CDSA tests available online for everyone to see but what would be the point? For those who believe in alternative methods, no proof is necessary when you get results and for those who don't believe, no proof is enough.
One thing is certain, though, the medical profession has stated they don't have a cure for CFS. Alternative methods are at least able to consider root causes and go from there. So why would any CFSer limit themselves to traditional medicine? Especially with CFS, when you have a liver methylation problem, putting drugs in your system is going to kick the liver when it's down and make things worse. And since doctors are merely drug salesmen, that's all they have to offer you. Many supplements will aid the liver in its job, like MSM, pantethine, milk thistle, etc. But doctors don't know about them because they aren't profitable enough.
Granted, it's extremely difficult to find an alternative doctor who knows enough about CFS to really help. I have gotten my good results from studying supplements and nutrition and knowing why the alternative doctor recommended what he did and I even added a lot of supplements to the protocol myself. I believe you have to be actively involved in your own treatment protocol, you can't just sit back and let someone else do it all. You could start with the recommendations at beatcfsandfms dot org, they were right on about CFS.
Many supplements like metabolites and enzymes have already been studied so we know what they do. You only need a clinical trial for drugs, because they are substances the body has never been in contact with before and you don't know what will happen. One obvious comparison is zovirax versus lysine. One is a drug, one is an amino acid. Both inhibit herpes viral replication. But zovirax is patentable and lysine is not. Lysine is much cheaper and without serious side effects compared to zovirax. But doctors don't even know anything about lysine. Money is what drives treatments in the medical profession, not degree of effectiveness or safety.
Did you know the American Cancer Society only gives grants for groups to look for patentable cures for cancer rather than any cure? Even though they are taking public donations, they are trying to act like a corporation - they want a piece of the patent! It says so right on their website, but not the front page, of course. I think that's pretty disgusting. But it's obvious even to them that if an unpatentable or natural cure is found, they will go out of business. So they set things up to make sure they all have jobs - that if a cure is found, that it is a highly profitable one rather than one that would be cheap and available to anyone. See, if a natural cure is found and gets FDA approval, then anyone can sell it and make it available. If it is natural and easy to obtain, there is no money to be made. And symptom management without a cure makes repeat business. So that is the medical profession in a nutshell. Makes you wonder how many natural cures are being kept quiet in the interest of job security . . .