This study examines how the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) integrates alternative medicine into its broader religious and ideological framework. Drawing on qualitative content analysis and semi-structured interviews with monastery practitioners, it analyzes how monastery-produced remedies, primarily herbal and natural products, are framed and justified. Analytically, I treat SOC alternative medicine as an ideological register rather than only a set of therapies. Building on scholarship on the ideological construction of medicine, I argue that monastery discourse frames remedies through religious and moral categories in ways that mirror the Church's broader positioning toward modern life. In this sense, their healing methods are legitimized less through biomedical evidence than through normative and political meanings and become a vehicle for articulating a critique of secular modernity, affirming moral authority, and marking boundaries against pharmaceutical and technocratic forms of expertise. Using discourse analysis to track recurring tropes and affective registers, the study argues that the persuasive force of this discourse relies on recognizably Romantic ideas, including antagonism toward modernity, the ideal of organic wholeness, glorification of nature, and a nostalgic return to origins. Rather than a marginal add-on, alternative medicine appears as an extension of core SOC ideological principles, showing how practices of healing and care serve to reproduce and rearticulate broader positions of the Orthodox Church. The paper shows how health discourse can operate as a low-threshold carrier of ideology, translating abstract critiques of modernity into everyday choices about bodies, nature, and trust and thereby extending Orthodox authority into the domain of medicine.