I suspect this (and political popularity) is why Swiss health insurance covers non-traditional medicine. Must be cheaper for some people to get acupuncture or herbal medicines, even at a markup, as a first-line treatment. And the placebo effect is real, so it's not like it's ineffective for some cases, just not necessarily better than placebo.

Exactly, like for instance I've been sick for 4 weeks until last week, like terribly, fever, throat pain, red eye lids, tiredness. Completely dead, just sleeping whole weekends. At some point I broke up with my gf (bit related, bit unrelated to the fact I was dead lol) and... the next day I'm running around, completely fine, dating and flirting like nothing was wrong.

We then realized that our relationship was too stressful (many factors there), not working, it was making me completely miserable to a point my body was just noping out of life.

Imagine then: should I have taking antibiotics, Panadol, long consultations with specialist ? Or a bit of BS fake juice ? The problem was not solvable by medicine and the government would have had to pay for it - in fact it did since I took all those medications that did nothing much. So not even for the placebo effect, sometimes you're sick because of life (stress is really a sickness inducer) and no amount of pharmaceuticals will truly help you.