1.   Dr. Jackson Kuan, the assistant director of gastroenterology at Flushing Hospital, said he occasionally sees patients who have misused herbs on the advice of alternative healers.

2.   The Federation of State Medical Boards last year urged its members not just to look at conventional medicine in rooting out fraud but also to investigate alternative healers.

3.   The problems that this alternative healer is having with the Western medical society proves this point perfectly.

4.   Voters can contradict politicians, alternative healers can rebut doctors.