Alternative Therapies

How do you feel about alternative therapies?
I personally have an interest in all things alternative and are quite happy to try things providing they won't do harm if they don't do any good.
One of the most successful things we tried was on my husband's leg where a patch of psoriasis was getting bigger and bigger. I soaked a pad of cotton wool in apple cider vinegar and kept it on for one day, within about 3 weeks it had completely healed up.
Some time back I ricked my ankle which by the evening was absolutely killing me. After a sleepless might I massaged castor oil into 3 times that day and without a word of a lie, the next day the pain had completely gone.