Just stick to the proven

That's not a Tim Minchin "quote," it's a common refrain in Science and Skepticism.

Things like that actually work though, something like chicken broth for if you have the flu of a fever, etc. That isn't necessarily medicine, but it's not alternative medicine either. Alternative medicine is shit like powdered rhino horn or albino human bone (very extreme examples but you get my point). Stuff that has no explanation for why it should work and simply doesn't work

That's a home remedy. Alternative medicine is more akin to dancing under the full moon in order to cure your cancer.

Consiter this though:

Supplemental,
Complimentary and
Alternative
Medicine

Think about it and let it sink in.

Sometimes placebos are used to treat a persons mental or emotional health which is affecting their physical health as a side effect

And the placebo isn't going to scam people out of their money and is used by professionals.

Not if that hope could fucking kill them

Just to be clear, that would be false hope.