Don't get me wrong I think if something is wrong you should go to your doctor first, I just think that the historical myth that their "science"(I use parenthesis because of the book Bad Medicine written by a pro-western medicine doctor claims that [with cited research] %80 of medicine practiced is not scientifically proven) is not authoritative truth because in some areas of medicine we are poking around in the dark, such as our understanding of the immune/inflammatory system. Not to criticize them, sometimes an educated guess is good enough or at least better than no help.
In other areas there is amazing competency that you are right has improved our lives greatly such fixing broken bones, sewing up wounds, diagnosing illness(not always but what they understand they have a lot of experience with) among many others like your acute situation.
Drink stinging nettle tea regularly for asthma ;]

I personally have no use for off-label prescriptions, vaccines, tylenol kills quite a few people by poisoning your liver and the other NSAIDS if taken regularly will cause a stomach rupture( happened to my friend).
Unfortunately with herbal medicine there are a lot of differing opinions, differing quality among other problems.

I will always answer herbal medicine questions.

Whenever I or my family has needed medicine no matter what kind I ended up using I definitely had to use all my brainpower as a careful and inquisitive consumer of medicine and many times it has been a difficult choice with serious consequences should I have been wrong.

So far so good though, I feel that realistically weighing side-effects vs potential benefit has served me well. Quite often I have chosen the doctors way and been well satisfied.