>For a large category of stuff: no it doesn't, unless it's patentable. Simply because there's no drive and funding to get it through the trials.

We have no shortage of very cheap and totally free solutions that are nonetheless accepted by conventional medicine.

>And for a lot of alternative medicine, the hit rate is quite low; it seems there are elements of matching the treatment to the patient that the RCT has trouble with

Or it's just that the "alternative medicine" hit rate is just the statistical noise from random healing, placebo and self-recovery.